I love to make even villains people you can relate to. When you find out who did it, I think you almost like the person, which is not easy to do.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

To be strong, find strength within yourself.

Any fool can make history, but it takes a genius to write it.

He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator.

People who read my books have an open mind when it comes to new, bizarre, interesting and exciting ideas.

I truly cannot imagine men with men, women with women, doing what they were not physically created to do, without abnormal stress and misbehavior.

We are each an army of one. March forward with your army, never let go of your future and never listen to idiots who tell you ‘no.’

I just think I'm fairly aggressive.

What I love the most is getting on the ice and just popping in a fabulous CD and skating - all by myself, the rink completely empty, just me and the music.

I do not keep up with the details of particle physics.

Directors work 10 times harder than anyone else. Get paid a quarter.