Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

I think he'll be to Rome as is the osprey to the fish, who takes it by sovereignty of nature.

Liza, I love you more than any words can say. You have made me a complete person. You are everything to me. And I cannot think of living life without you. And I love you forever.

At a certain point, I just felt, you know, God is not looking for alms, God is looking for action.

Not in achievement, but in endurance, of the human soul, does it show its divine grandeur and its alliance with the infinite.

When I took on the drug companies and the insurance companies for universal health care coverage, they went after me with a vengeance.

Without a yardstick sometimes the high points can be taken for granted.

Our emotions need to be as educated as our intellect. It is important to know how to feel, how to respond, and how to let life in so that it can touch you.

Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.

Don't create for the masses. Create for the people who are your kind of weird.

I'm in this band to give volume to various struggles throughout the world. To me, the tension in this band is a minimal sacrifice.