“if it's not the RIGHT thing to do it's something else!”
“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It's important to combine the two in just the right amount.”
“It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.”
“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”
“Mental simulation is not as good as actually doing something. But it's the next best thing. And the right kind of a story is a simulation.”
“People call me a perfectionist, but I'm not. I'm a rightist. I do something until it's right, and then I move on to the next thing.”