It cannot be considered success unless you are smiling..

In real life, there are names that surprise us because they don't seem to suit the person at all..

I'm really not that confident!.

I've been racketeered on..

Happiness is fugitive; dissatisfaction and boredom are real..

Everything takes longer than you expect, even when you expect it to take longer than you expect..

Acquiring an aggressive, honest, and communicative agent with actual relationships in real-live New York publishing houses is, in my opinion, the sin….

For every one of our failures, we had spreadsheets that looked awesome.

I was crazily, deeply, incredibly, joyously, terrifiedly in love..

If you have ever been in a real tragic or sad situation, the words that come out are hopelessly inadequate and kind of cliched..

This is your here, this is your now, let it be magical!.

Every thing is of the nature of no thing..

I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy..

I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw..

We don't have anything planned, so nothing can go wrong..

And Clare, always Clare..

You will invest your life in something, or you will throw it away on nothing..

I work from a personal place, and the work has personal meaning for me..

I'm always writing. It's kind of a curse: You never stop. But I need isolation to write. So the real meat of the material comes when I'm off the road..

There is nothing more regenerating than music..

For 6,000 years, these rules have been unquestionably right. And yet we break them every day. People feel that something is wrong in life. There is s….