In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.

"If you can't change your fate, change your attitude."

"Who knows where inspiration comes from? Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses."

"How can you say luck and chance are the same thing? Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterwards."

"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."