Great lovers realize that they are what they are in love with.

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.

There were no absolutes in fiction, no certain way to deliver what was needed. So it was no surprise most technical writers considered novel-writing a gateway to madness.

My focus was on trying to figure out what God wanted be to do next. Their (his parents') focus was on what I was doing for God at the moment.

You're a lot better off being scared than being bored.

He was so. So dirty, and just moving in front of me, and cute. I was in love with him, especially because he was talking to me.

It's always interesting to step into the enemy's shoes, and figure out what they're like.

The foetus is the property of the entire society.Anyone having children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.

Today, it is especially difficult for most people to understand our perilous global energy situation precisely because it has never been more important to do so.

A man will go to war, fight and die for his country. But he won't get a bikini wax.

When we make a mistake, it becomes front-page news. We don't need any reporter telling us how badly we played.