I think part of the problem sometimes is that there's so much happening in my books, to whittle it down into a single script is hard.

Don't think or judge, just listen.

There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you'd better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you'll never understand what it's saying.

Your actions is like a raindrop; it falls into the pond making ripples and then its over.

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys.

Looking at the pond, all I could think was that it is an incredivle thing, how a whole world can rise from what seems like nothing at all.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.

Sometimes a question can hurt more than an answer.

Being brave and self-confident doesn't necessarily start inside...It starts with the rest of the world, and it leads back to you.

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Laws should act as the lower limits of acceptable behavior, not as a guide to noble action.

There's definitely, definitely, definitely, no logic to human behaviour . . . There's no map And a compass Wouldn't help at all

How many times can summer turn to fall in one life?

Nothing to be honest. I am a fighter. I'm crazy already. I'm not afraid of ghosts or anything.

It is the destiny of the people of Haiti to suffer.

I buy tons of magazines. They're a big part of how I research characters. And I keep them around and go back to them years later. I just have stacks.

What’s my greatest weakness? Sad stories, people with problems

Existence itself is disconcerting and disorienting.

One might as well try to ride two horses moving in different directions, as to try to maintain in equal force two opposing or contradictory sets of desires.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.