“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”

“Change is good. And in fact unavoidable.”

“I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.”

“If we wait until our lives are free from sorrow or difficulty, then we wait forever. And miss the entire point.”

“Life has never been easy. Nor is it meant to be. It is a matter of being joyous in the face of sorrow.”

“I am very abnormal... But it wasn't very long ago that I wasn't so abnormal. I was very normal and headed for a lifetime of paying medical bills as proof of my normalcy.”