

“I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Delicious Ambiguity.”
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Delicious Ambiguity.”
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“Words have weight.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

“Worry is a misuse of your imagination.”
― The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level
― The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level

“When you don't take an aggressive role in shaping your thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, you become a helpless passenger floating through the universe like a ghost ship, merely reacting to wherever it takes you.”
― The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level
― The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level

“I believe the road to hell is paved with adverbs, and I will shout it from the rooftops. To put it another way, they're like dandelions. If you have one on your lawn, it looks pretty and unique. If you fail to root it out, however, you find five the next day... fifty the day after that... and then, my brothers and sisters, your lawn is totally, completely, and profligately covered with dandelions. By then you see them for the weeds they really are, but by then it's—GASP!!—too late.”
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
― On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
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