I like to write paper mail - nobody does that anymore - with my pen pals.

I move around a lot. Ive lived in a ton of different places - and only for a month or two at a time. I have a deep, rabid curiosity, so I like having a gypsy life.

I think the first couple of times you do make-out scenes, you psych yourself out and it's really nerve racking.

One Tree Hill was a great learning opportunity for me, and Im excited to go and apply that elsewhere and see where I end up.

For me, I always wonder what's worse: an emotional betrayal or a physical betrayal? That's a really tough call.

I grew up in such a macho family. I had a former Green Beret for a dad, a mom who's really rough-and-tumble, and three very macho brothers.

Isn't Googling someone the first thing everyone does?! They meet someone new and Google them!

Gardening gloves are for sissies. I always have dirt under my nails.

There's something about a holiday that isn't all about how much money you spend.

I've always been very vocal about my religion. It's a big part of who I am.

I used to have to think about awful things to get myself emotionally connected to something.

There is no aspect of life that you take that does not demand discipline. It is a requirement of life. It is not a matter of choice.

This madman must be stopped.

Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you're hopefully gaining wisdom and you're starting to watch things with a better overview.

I never did write a biography, and I don't exactly know how to set about it; you see I have to be accurate and keep to the facts, a most difficult thing for a writer of fiction.

In our marginal existence, what else is there but this voice within us, this great weirdness we are always leaning forward to listen to?

I relax by taking my bicycle apart and putting it back together again.

The devil has never found a better tool in the history of the world to destroy the happiness of human beings than liquor.

I'm not afraid of dying, I'm afraid of living.

Now my ability to notice things and respond to things and be here is far more profound. With that comes happiness, with it comes sadness, but it's a beautiful life.

Of all the small nations of this earth, perhaps only the ancient Greeks surpass the Scots in their contribution to mankind.