You Can't Always Trust What You Think,

For The Most Part Wisdom Comes In Chips Rather Than Blocks. You Have To Be Willing To Gather Them Constantly, And From Sources You Never Imagined To Be Probable. No One Chip Gives You The Answer For Everything. No One Chip Stays In The Same Place Throughout Your Entire Life. The Secret Is To Keep Adding Voices, Adding Ideas, And Moving Things Around As You Put Together Your Life. If You’re Lucky, Putting Together Your Life Is A Process That Will Last Through Every Single Day You’re Alive.

If Anybody Had Shown Me The Paperwork For How My Life Was Going To Look In Five Years, I Would Have Said, "no. That Is Not Where I Want To Go."

I Always Feel It Is A Shortcoming Of Mine As A Reader And As A Writer That I Frankly Need To Like Somebody.

I Think The Best Vacation Is The One That Relieves Me Of My Own Life For A While And Then Makes Me Long For It Again.

Why Is It That We Understand Playing The Cello Will Require Work, But We Attribute Writing To The Magic Of Inspiration?