In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?
“When the stories come easily and the writing process doesn't feel laboring, that's usually a good sign for me.”
“If today is your typical day in America, 80 of our fellow citizens will die from gunfire. In the last two weeks, more Americans have died from gunfire here at home in the United States than in the entire war in Iraq since it started.”