I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them.

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.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee that it will eventually subside.

I'd gotten someone killed.The price people seem to pay for crossing my path.

We have the precedent of Collin Powell ten years ago, when he showed the evidence, it was false, and it was forged.

Everyone's not good at everything, it's ok to depend on someone.

Marriage is a very long process.

The mark of extraordinary merit is to see those most envious of it constrained to praise.

What did you do with the time and talents i gave you? God's question.

Think of ideas as a beat. To change a mind is to change the world.

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least studied.