I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered.

Love is like the wind, you can't see it but you can feel it.

I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.

You are, and always have been, my dream.

In the blink of an eye, something happens by chance - when you least expect it - sets you on a course that you never planned, into a future you never imagined.

I want you to be.... happy.

I mean, if the relationship can't survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?

The scariest thing about distance is that you don’t know whether they’ll miss you or forget you.

You can't live your life for other people. You've got to do what's right for you, even if it hurts some people you love.

Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.

You must really love this guy, huh? I mean, to be crying as ugly as you are?

Think of it as an eight-dimensional onion.’ Justine straightened her back and gave her father an exasperated look. ‘Thanks, Dad. That’s helpful. I always think in those terms, it really helps a lot.

It's always worrying to see a journalist take a sudden interest in what you're saying, especially when you half suspect it was a load of pigeon guano.

I came to a clear internal realization that there was nothing I could do as a separated self that would ever fulfill me.

If anyone conceives that he is loved by another, and believes that he has given no cause for such love, he will love that other in return.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

To know you have enough is to be rich.

With empathy, I'm fully with them, not full of them — that's sympathy.

Ideas don’t make money, effort does.

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.