I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

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.

When we change our thoughts, we will change our experiences.

I never left because a part of me will always be in that house...

You learn a lot about a person when she saves your life, - Mecho

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Quiet solitude is a nutritional need of the ascending body.

Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

Sometimes it's important to vote - you know, to make a statement, to make a point; certainly, many of us who were involved in the Nader campaign in 2000 felt that way.

I don't think Marquee Moon was so good, y'know? Just another record. First records everybody likes a lot.

Friends are always friends no matter how far you have to travel back in time. If you have memories together, there is always a piece of your friendship inside your heart.

Politicians have always coveted the liberties we hold.