You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
“Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.”
“Crime and legal stories, broadly speaking, are just where my interest happens to lie.”