Dogs are great teachers. They are at home in the world. They live in the moment, and they force us to stay there with them. Dogs love us unconditionally, not for our bodies or bank accounts.

You mustn’t be so open-minded that your brains fall out.

Addiction isnt about substance - you arent addicted to the substance, you are addicted to the alteration of mood that the substance brings.

There is no such thing as expecting too much.

Writers often write their best when they are feeling their worst

I believe that the memoir is the novel of the 21st century; it’s an amazing form that we haven’t even begun to tap…we’re just getting started figuring out what the rules are.

The actual American childhood is less Norman Rockwell and Walt Disney than Nathaniel Hawthorne and Edgar Allan Poe.

Womens currency is their looks. Like it or not, the most powerful woman is an 18-year-old woman.

Personal experience is the lightning of the soul; it transforms the heart in ways that leave the brain behind.

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

Guilt is petty; I am above guilt.

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written.

My dream is to create something so beautiful that it encourages people to present the best version of themselves to me everywhere I go.

I play the keyboard, piano - I like making beats.

I feel like a steaming cow-pat - or a car that's clocked up 400,000 miles in one journey.

Don't sell out your virtue and your value for something you think you want. Judas got the money, but he threw it all away and hung himself because he was so unhappy with himself.

Everything is made of atoms.

It is easy to want things from the Lord and yet not want the Lord Himself, as though the gift could ever be preferable to the Giver.

What am I going to do with you? Yesterday I kiss you, and you attack me! Today you pass out on me!

I make plenty of mistakes and I'll make plenty more mistakes, too. That's part of the game. You've just got to make sure that the right things overcome the wrong ones.

I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them.