I've always said I'm more influenced in what I do by artists, and how they work, how they think, and the freedom they're given to work and think, than I really am by other writers.

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.

We are offspring of God.

I'm right and wrong, moral and immoral, good and bad, a hero and a villain, and I've been just as capable of truth as I have been lies.

Isn't life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?

If we only have the will to walk, then God is pleased with our stumbles.

Twitter is an amazing thing, because people follow each other and they can make friends.

I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

You have to be local. You have to focus on your local members of Congress.

everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.

You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart.

It's because somebody knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows anything about we can discuss.