A responsibility of literature is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Let us see rather that like Janus—or better, like Yama, the Brahmin god of death—religion has two faces, one very friendly, one very gloomy...

Prayer gives you a supernatural boldness that you cannot get by any other means

because to influence a person is to give one's own soul.

But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future.

When who you are and what you are is not decided by any external forces, then you are in dignity.

We have a partnership deal with New Line Records, which is part of New Line Cinema, and... I worked on that.

One thing I love is to do childrens hospital visits.

Agents are used to the parents pimping. They're not used to the kid pimping.

"He sido un hombre afortunado en la vida, nada me ha sido facil." "I've been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easy"

I never thought of myself as handsome.