I'm married, I have a couple kids, I've traveled a lot, I've done book tours a lot, I'm happy to stay home and take my kids to school and come to the office.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

But there are a few people in your life who become so much a part of you that it feels like you're missing a limb when they're gone.

If you don’t want to get stuck where you don’t want to be, have the courage to do difficult things.

But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have trouble with me!

There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of Nature and has his senses still.

They gave me eyes. All of you are beautiful; you shine like stars. But I must go away with them.

Abused And neglected children have paid the price for liberalism's tendency to sentimentalize the poor.

You don't have to stay anywhere forever.

I get the first flight out from anywhere I am because I have to come home to my kids.

The Princess Andromeda?" "Went ka-boom.

We were a commodity used by corporations to make their brand look fashionable, but then they used us to keep kids out of venues.