I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

The pinecone is a fearsome tool of destruction!-Bacchus

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

When most investors, including the pros, all agree on something, they're usually wrong.

It takes someone very special to help you forget someone very special.

I tried to come up with a definition of this new paradigm in six articles entitled "Russia after Putin." I would consider Russia's integration into Europe the most important element of this strategy.

A man without makeup is like a cake without icing.

I determine nothing; I do not comprehend things; I suspend judgment; I examine.

The spirit of delight comes in small ways.

As a man gets older, if he knows what is good for him,, the women he likes are getting older too. The trouble is that most of them are married.

Good advice is rarer than rubies.