If you don't chance your arm, you'll never break your neck.

Risk it; go for it. Life always gives you another chance, another go at it. It's very important to take enormous risks.

When I get moved to write a story, I don't question the story. I dive right in, and I try to ignore the voices that are chattering away at me: 'You can't do that', 'You shouldn't do that'. I just sort of leap and take a chance and go for it.

It'a okay to take some break from the crucible steep of stairs that you want to try to achieve, as long as you don't stop in the middle and go down where you have gone this far.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

Life is a gamble, at terrible odds - if it was a bet you wouldn't take it.