There would be more happily married couples in the world if people spent more time planning for a married life than for a wedding?

Live your life as a curious student and you will discover how fascinating it is.

I look back on my life like a good day's work it is done and I am satisfied with it.

A man without patience is a lamp without oil.

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

Life can change in an instant.

People believed in an afterlife because they couldn't bear not to.

Prudence does not save us, but shows us pictures of our destroyers.

You don't want your readers seeing easy connections; it becomes a distraction.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.