"Writing's funny, it's like walking down a hall in the dark looking for the light switch, and suddenly you find it, flip it on, and then you discover the hallway you passed through is papered with the novel you've written."
"I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time......why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was the last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future."
"Grandfather informs me that is not possible."
"I think and think and think, I‘ve thought myself out of happiness one million times, but never once into it."
"You cannot protect yourself from sadness without protecting yourself from happiness."
"I'm sorry for my inability to let unimportant things go, for my inability to hold on to the important things."