“The dead aren't scary. They are just sad.”

“There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is”

“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living. ”

“Writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty… It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful, and utterly, utterly personal thing. There's not the writer and then me; there's just me. All of my life connects to the writing. All of it.”

“beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad, but its everything in between that makes it all worth living.”

“Why aren't you dead?" Will demanded.”

“Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s the middle that counts. You have to remember this when you find yourself at the beginning.”

“Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.”

“Psychoanalysis has taught that the dead – a dead parent, for example – can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts.”

“Sometimes we get sad about things and we don't like to tell other people that we are sad about them. We like to keep it a secret. Or sometimes, we are sad but we really don't know why we are sad, so we say we aren't sad but we really are.”