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When you're doing something that you think - that you know - is a breakthrough, you cannot obsess about the possibility of failure. That is just not a great place to go.

I'm going to focus on myself and continue to get myself better because I have plenty of things I need to work on.

I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of 'Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this,' and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.

Science has always been my preoccupation and when you think a breakthrough is possible, it is terribly exciting.

I've had the odd good luck of starting slowly and building gradually, something few writers are allowed anymore. As a result I've seen each of my books called the breakthrough. And each was, in its way.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

The biggest breakthroughs in consciousness occur when things are difficult; when we have a choice to fall to the worst of ourselves or rise to the best of ourselves.

But I don't want to leave until I see the breakthrough.

I can take the spotlight that shines on me and shift it towards those issues that are infinitely more important than my own issues.