Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.

I've always liked older ladies. I'm comfortable with it. They seem to be nice. They've seen it all.

The secret of secrets is inside me again.

The U.N. is much more than the case of Iraq.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

New Yorkers always hate LA! I love both cities! I do love the sunshine and the beach after growing up in rainy England.

Then there was a kid in the neighborhood about three blocks away, his name was Bobby Beavis.

If we know that we are now at the point where we have always wanted to be, we will be there. . . because we are never there but always here, now!

If virtuous, the government need not fear the fair operation of attack and defense. Nature has given to man no other means of sifting the truth, either in religion, law, or politics.

Actually, I defend the right to free abortion.