The standard of success in life isn't the things. It isn't the money or the stuff. It is absolutely the amount of joy that you feel. - Esther Hicks
I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.
If I have to spend time in purgatory before going to one place or the other, I guess I'll be all right as long as there's a lending library.
If there is love, smallpox scars are as pretty as dimples. I'll love your face no matter what it looks like. Because it's yours.
If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. When you find something at which you have talent, you do that thing (what ever it is) until your fingers bleed or your eyes pop out of your head.
People don't get better, they just get smarter. When you get smarter you don't stop pulling the wings off flies, you just think of better reasons for doing it.
Reading in bed can be heaven, assuming you can get just the right amount of light on the page and aren't prone to spilling your coffee or cognac on the sheets.