I was also known as Frodo because I was an early adopter of 'The Lord of the Rings.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

The fate of humanity is a common destiny of death.

Poor people can't understand this: It's not what you do that creates a fortune, but who you are.

But he said to me, ‘My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.’ Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.

A date is an experience you have with another person that makes you appreciate being alone.

I just need to do something new.... I've got the big remote control of life in my hands, and I'm ready to start pushing some buttons.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

In spite of all that doctors know, and their studies never end, the best cure of all when spirits fall is a kind note from a friend.

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.

The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.