I just thought it was important that people knew right from the jump that I've got problems. But in all seriousness, that's a huge part of my writing process.

No matter what we've done, no matter the disappointments and sullied blunders, today is the opportunity to do right by ourselves.

We have today and hopefully tomorrow to be the best version of ourselves.

My tunnel vision allows me to have a longer work day than most writers. I'm thankful for that.

I always feel that as the author, once I know what a character is ashamed of, then I can go about making her truthful on the page.

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

Today is going to be free of the past. Today, the past can't hurt me.

In my life the right question is simply this: What can I do to be happy today?

Self-respect doesn't come naturally to me. I need to constantly remind myself and do the work to err on the side of self-respect, rather than self-punishment.

I struggle with staying clean every day, and what really keeps me from doing something stupid is my daughter.

I want to be the kind of adult that keeps learning. I want to always be open to new experiences.

Don't look for meaning in life. It was meant to be lived not understood

You're it for me, Katie. You're my world now.

There is no coincidence. Only the illusion of coincidence.

Allow God to continually soften your heart so that it beats for what his heart beats for - people.

If 180 million people want to be undead, that’s their funeral, but I happen to like being alive.

The American dream, to me, means having the opportunity to achieve, because I don't think you should be guaranteed anything other than opportunity.

The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Progressions can't be made if we're separate forever

You won't acquire external Haters until you've conquered the internal Hater.

By many a temple half as old as Time.

I don't want to hurt you," he said. "Too late.