Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

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.

It was a subtle refinement of God to learn Greek when he wished to write a book – and that he did not learn it better.

...Raleigh was later to write, after a duel the hangman was the one who bestowed the garland on the victor.

Beauty to beguile, spies to ensnare, and gold, always gold, to tempt, to trap, to control.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

Yet where Denal had prayed to Poseidon for death, Alaric was praying to the same god for life.

I'm working full-time on my job and part time on my fortune. But it won't be long before I'm working full-time on my fortune. . . can you imagine what my life will look like?

She who licks her lips knows the taste of her lover's desires

Super-ambitious goals tend to be unifying and energizing to people; but only if they believe there's a chance of success.

I love skin. I don't believe the body is something to hide.