I never felt pressured to create more stories, but dealing with people became really aggravating.

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

Life is not life unless you make mistakes.

The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

In the end, photography for me is just an excuse to get to know the world.

I wrote the first draft of my first novel at Michigan, and then I wrote the first draft of 'Salvage the Bones' at Stanford. So I workshopped the entire thing.

My core message is that God has got a good plan for your lives, and we must trust Him, and let go of the past. That's my main message.

Normally, I don't recommend me for wedding dresses – they all get a divorce.

When a writer declares that his first book is his best, that is bad. I progress successively from book to book.

You have a career, and you start as a business person. And you work your way, you reach this peak, and you know the time's going to come when you go back down.

In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part.

I do have fun. Even when I’m fighting I’m enjoying it: I think there’s nothing as exhilarating as protecting that which you find precious.