Don't let yourself be thrown away....Continue on no matter what....Continue to make a positive effort for the good.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

Let’s not call cancer patients as patients, they are cancer fighters. They are brave hearts.

If traditional doesn't work, then traditions won't do.

I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually have to do, ironically, with powerlessness and isolation.

You need to take a long, hard look in the mirror and not come away thinking, "Hey, there's something wrong with this mirror."

Riches are apt to betray a man into arrogance.

I don't wear lipstick when I'm not at work.

If someone is very upper-class, you have a stereotype of him which is probably true. If someone has a working-class accent, you have no idea who you're talking to.

Melancholy overwhelms me at supersonic speed.

To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.