Depression is a prison where you are both the suffering prisoner and the cruel jailer.

You will have no peace until you have discovered how to forgive yourself, to forgive other people and let them forgive you.

We can love someone without understanding that person.

After all I've done for you' has alienated more children from their parents than any act of parent cruelty.

We would like to believe that we are not in the business of surviving but in being good, and we do not like to admit to ourselves that we are good in order to survive.

However, when we are depressed, being reminded of other people's suffering only serves to increase our self-hatred.

...we can love someone without understanding that person.

The problem with growing up fearing and expecting rejection is that you cannot enter into adult relationship in the expectation of happiness.

...for if we try to go on protecting them we prevent them from growing up to be ordinary, confident adults, capable of looking after themselves.

But like I told you guys years ago: this demigod gig is dangerous. Don't say I didn't warn you.

Confidence is a very important thing. But confidence isn't something you just develop by saying "I'm going to do this or that." You really have to believe it.

I tried body surfing once, but how often do you find a corpse?

Writers who teach tend to prefer literary theory to literature and tenure to all else. Writers who do not teach prefer the contemplation of Careers to art of any kind.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.

A lot of the images I use are already out there in the public or in the news. I just steal them or photograph them or repaint them, so they've already been talked about, already been consumed.

The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security, but especially no big surprises, no shocks.

I never wanted anything so much than to drown in your love and not feel your rain.

News photography teaches you to think fast.