“Go down." It seemed obvious. "You have to go down before you can come out - that's how these things always work.”

“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can't get back on the right one?”

“And I told him, I said: "One day you're going to miss the subway because it's not going to come. One of these days, it's going to break down and it's not going to come around and everyone else will just wait for the next one or will take the bus, or walk, or run to the next station: they will go on with their lives. And you're not going to be able to go on with your life! You'll be standing there, in the subway station, staring at the tube. Why? Because you think that everything has to happen perfectly and on time and when you think it's going to happen! Well guess what! That's not how things happen! And you'll be the only one who's not going to be able to go on with life, just because your subway broke down. So you know what, you've got to let go, you've got to know that things don't happen the way you think they're going to happen, but that's okay, because there's always the bus, there's always the next station...you can always take a cab.”

“Always concentrate on how far you have come, rather than how far you have left to go. The difference in how easy it seems will amaze you.”

“There are no guarantees of how things are going to work out. They’re actually working out the way they need to be working out, no matter how outrageous they seem.”

“It's often a matter of sitting in front of the computer and worrying. It's what writing comes down to--worrying that things aren't going to work out.”