I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

Growing nails breaks all conducts (aachar). When one conduct breaks, it breaks all other conducts.

Entrepreneurs are outsiders by nature - outsiders with a work ethic.

I couldn't care less about the leader board. A lot of guys have led the league in something in April and couldn't be found at the end of the season.

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

My belief that the publishing industry is run by prigs and cowards dates back to many years before I even had the idea for the book.

We have assembled inside this ancient / and insane theatre / To propagate our lust for life / and flee the swarming wisdom / of the streets

I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept.

Writing is a necessary thing for me, just to keep myself level. It has beneficial effects on my life.

Old and young, we are all on our last cruise.