Fiction is love and hate and agreement and conflict and common adventure, not lonely musings on have-beens and might-have-beens.

Good enough is never good enough.

The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows the more lowly he bends his head.

If you are inclined to leave your character solitary for any considerable length of time, better question yourself. Fiction is association, not withdrawal.

Do all hearts break the same way?

She believes that everyone we meet influences us, that we need to hear their stories to learn more about ourselves.

A soft touch, a light scrub, a hard squeeze, a tight hug, a long stare, a beautiful conversation are just a few among many trivial influential love actions that develop peoples emotions.

I am at that age when former child stars go off the rails.

‎Halt looked up at the trees above him. "Why does this boy ask so many questions?" he asked the trees. Naturally, they didn't answer.

Myspace was always a bit edgy. People identified it with edginess and music.

And to Tom Cruise, for if you had won this, your asking price would have gone down so fast. Do you have any idea what supporting actors get paid? We get only one trailer, a small one, in the back.

I’ve never been comfortable around groups of guys when it gets into the putting-down. My past being a kind of geek - it kind of turns into an attack on the weakest of the group.

May it not be that the brighter stars are like our Sun, the upholding and energizing centers of systems of living beings?