Amazing what we can self-rationalize when we really want something

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Live can only be fully lived by faith in the spirit of love.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

There has to be a reason and objective (to air strikes). What does it do to move the effort down the road for a political conversation?

It's easier to write about those you hate — just as it's easier to criticize a bad play or a bad book.

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Consciences keep silence more often than they should, that's why laws were created.

Tagore once said - art has to be beautiful, but, before that, it has to be truthful.

How gratifying to be there when arrogance collapses. How much more so to be the instrument. (Alfred Gillette)

From the dark end of the street - To the bright side of the road - We'll be lovers once again on the - Bright side of the road

Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is.