I was so alone that every day was like eating my own heart.

But if these years have taught me anything it is this: you can never run away. Not ever. The only way out is in.

If you didn't grow up like I did then you don't know, and if you don't know it's probably better you don't judge.

In my view, a writer is a writer because even when there is no hope, even when nothing you do shows any sign of promise, you keep writing anyway.

In order to write the book you want to write, in the end you have to become the person you need to become to write that book.

You can't regret the life you didn't lead.

She was the kind of girlfriend God gives you young, so you'll know loss the rest of your life.

Success, after all, loves a witness, but failure can't exist without one.

She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.

Our relationship wasn't the sun, the moon, the stars, but it wasn't bullshit, either.

Then you look at her and smile a smile your dissembling face will remember until the day you die. Baby, you say, baby, this is part of my novel. This is how you lose her.

The human person finds his perfection "in seeking and loving what is true and good.

You can say battle or war or whatever, but in the end, it's music. It's not really violent in intent at all, it's really just about expression and celebrating that in itself.

Science fiction seldom attempts to predict the future. More often than not, it tries to prevent the future.

Italy's siren call lures us more and more.

WikiLeaks is a important focus of our attention.

Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.

I want to be remembered as a guy who's not going to change your life but who is going to change your mood. As a guy who made you smile and say, "I miss him. He was a lot of fun."

People create social conditions and people can change them.

If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.

Someone out there was about to find that their worst nightmare was a maddened Librarian. With a badge.