All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough. - Anna Quindlen

There are only two ways, really, to become a writer. One is to write. The other is to read.

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

Sometimes I remind myself that I almost skipped the party, that I almost went to a different college, that the whim of a minute could have changed everything and everyone. Our lives, so settled, so specific, are built on happenstance.