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The only time I know that something is true is at the moment I discover it in the act of writing.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.
We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.
I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
"The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion."
"Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them."
"We are most alive when we're in love."
"When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas."
Freeing yourself was one thing, claiming ownership of that freed self was another.
The only obsession everyone wants: ‘love.’ People think that in falling in love they make themselves whole? The Platonic union of souls? I think otherwise. I think you’re whole before you begin. And the love fractures you. You’re whole, and then you’re cracked open.
The act of writing is an act of self-discovery.