“No story worth telling should ever be about blame or regret. What happened was what was meant to happen.”
“...What happens is of little significance compared with the stories we tell ourselves about what happens. Events matter little, only stories of events affect us.”
“News in not what happened but a story about what happened.”
“You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened”
“Readers of a certain class are apt to call good the plot of that story in which "you can't tell what is going to happen next." But in some of the most tedious novels ever written you can't tell what is going to happen next--and you don't care a fig what is going to happen next.”
“He tells us that life isn't about what happens to you, it's about what you do about what happens to you.”