"My message is believe in yourself. Have courage in your capacity. Listen to your inner voice. And then the critical component of all this is, do the work."

“Death is the wish of some, the relief of many, and the end of all.”

“What you say doesn't have to be great if people already like you.”

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“More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.”

“I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as a prologue, but I find the word "intention," confusing ("trust the art," as D.H. Lawrence said, "not the artist"). These speculations are perhaps better responded to by text and reader, rather than author.”

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“Fake friends are like autumn leaves, they're scattered everywhere.”

“In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.”

“You must find the right voice (or voices) for the timbre that can convince a reader to give himself up to you.”

“And the English army, wheeling, started south at a gallop over the hill pass into Ettrick, followed by twenty men and eight hundred sheep in steel helmets.”