All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

In our quest for the answers of life we tend to make order out of chaos, and chaos out of order.

My father loved biographies. He loved the true tales of interesting people that were shaping our culture. I get why he dug Vanity Fair. You feel smarter, somehow, for reading it.

Women's glances express what they dare not speak.

As an actor we're just like workers in a factory, we provide our services to directors.

I always have a story in my head that needs to be written, or at least I think I do. But I usually can't find the time to write it.

Find something you like and use it often

The more bombers the less room for doves of peace.

Nothing truly real is forgotten eternally, because everything real comes from eternity and goes to eternity.

If they just reverse the division, ban the judges, and then it'll discourage other judges from ever doing this.

He who would study nature in its wildness and variety, must plunge into the forest, must explore the glen, must stem the torrent, and dare the precipice.