I would never write a memoir, because it would be too boring.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

A zing travels up my arm from the contact. My nostrils flare, and I catch a whiff of her female scent. She may not wear perfume, but there’s a bewitching essence to her that ensnares my senses.

People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don’t know anything, but because they don’t know what they don’t know!

If he can give his readers no reason why they should read his book, except that the events happened to him, it is not a valid book.

Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

People change and things go wrong but just remember life goes on.

Sometimes I feel that I am a natural born genius in a field of human endeavor that hasn't been invented yet

My favorite type of music to sing is definitely those big ballads, I just love doing those power ballads.

Bad impulse buys make you feel grim, don't they? It's like having consumer Tourette's. I gravitate towards austere foreign-language film DVDs when insecure.

The lives of people are like young trees in a forest. They are being choked by climbing vines. The vines are old thoughts and beliefs planted by dead men.