I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're writing something for themselves.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

It's our willingness to be vulnerable that will heal us in the end.

The movers & shakers of the world are not imbued with special powers. Once you realize that, you too can attain your rightful mantle.

I was reading the dictionary. I thought it was a poem about everything.

Now is that last time you'll see today, so make it memorable.

People say that [i'm a celebrity], but I've only had to sign autographs for "civ-libs" types. And I autograph court orders.

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

We are lied to by our love songs.

Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

By and by never comes.