You should do what you want, but I think you should also consider wanting something different.

Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

People don't change when they don't acknowledge their actions.

Climb aboard life's elevator, hit the "up" button, and see where it takes you.

Sometimes the way through someone's tough outer shell is to do something obvious, thoughtful and sweet.

This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.

Bullies never want to acknowledge their own actions. They want to move through life without reflection or apology.

Ask 10 people about their family relationships and at least five of them will report an estrangement.

When you are criticizing someone, you should speak only to your own experience - not others'.

Bullies often act out by marshaling aggression to cover up for insecurity.

When the choice is between a demanding relationship and a vintage pickup truck, I'll choose the truck every time.

Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

I ache not from need -but from my heart's gluttony of you.

Every stage of life has its own challenges. Be grateful for each stage.

I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in school, but I definitely didn't have adequate time to reach my full potential as a student.

Being proud of something is a very tricky word and I sometimes think it has a bad connotation. I don't feel proud, I feel grateful. I'm lucky.

Nothing is more common than unfulfilled potential.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present.

I need a coffee to go with my coffee.