Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

When you go into labor you see that you are not the captain of the ship. You are the ship. There is no captain. There are only the waves.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

Never board a commercial aircraft if the pilot is wearing a tank top.

Wonder is our need today, not information.

O God! I ask You for the means to do good, to avoid evil and to love the poor.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

Style is such a personal thing; it's your way to be an individual.

Poetry, like sanctity, is the orchestration of multiple attributes into vast, compelling wholes.