For me, writing is just as much a choice as breathing. I can quit anytime I want, but not starting again would prove fatal.

Every great novel begins with a single word. One word, followed by another and another and another. Sentences forming paths to that dream.

Insanity runs in my family, but somehow we've always managed to track it down and catch it again.

No person, relationship, or religion should complete you. They can enhance whatever is already there, but completion of the self comes from within, not from anything beyond that.

Do you ever find yourself climbing into an open grave during a bombing raid..and wish you'd just stayed in bed?

Nothing is worth more than this day.

Either a wise man will not go into bunkers, or, being in, he will endure such things as befall him with patience.

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Warm-heartedne ss and concern for others’ well-being are a condition for happiness, whether you are religious or not.

There's a difference to being humble and being humbled

I have never wavered from my intention to advance the cause of diversity in new and more effective ways.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

I just wanted to act. I didn't want to do anything else.

Failure is an event, it is not a person.