“Some questions don't have answers, which is a terribly difficult lesson to learn.”

“The only way I can describe the extent of my anxiety is to say that I felt as if I were pregnant with a rock.”

“The longer I live, the more I observe that carrying around anger is the most debilitating to the person who bears it.”

“A mistake is simply another way of doing things. ”

“life is to be lived.if you have to support yourself,you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.And you don't do that by sitting around.”

“But when I say it isn't meant for anyone's eyes, I don't mean it in the sense of one of those novel manuscripts people keep in a drawer, insisting they don't care if anyone else ever reads it or not.The people I have known who do that, I am convinced, have no faith in themselves as writers and know, deep down, that the novel is flawed, that they don't know how to tell the story, or they don't understand what the story is, or they haven't really got a story to tell. The manuscript in the drawer is the story.”

“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”