If you aren't following your bliss, there is a discrepancy in your psychology that needs to be healed, it needs to be mended.

Everyday is a bank account, and time is our currency. No one is rich, no one is poor, we've got 24 hours each.

If you're doing something, if you're following something that is directly at odds with who you are, you've got to slow down and ask yourself why you're following that dream.

I'm not a literary writer who is wedded to notions of realism and fiction. I believe that you can write anything if you can feel it convincingly.

Honestly, in retrospect, I would wish for future generations to have the ability to have a coming out process that was less alcohol-soaked than mine was.

I think outsiders sometimes produce the best fictional perspectives on reality because they're set apart from it, so they have a unique view from the border.

I think we need to always mimic reality in our fiction. I think that we can stir things up and reveal a truth beneath the surface in that way as well.

This is not an international thriller so much as a fiercely literate attempt to subvert the thriller genre itself.

I think that I am profoundly influenced by writers who have explored loss, and longing, and fear. Those influences have turned me into a thriller writer, essentially.

I encourage young people to refrain from putting themselves in dangerous situations in the name of validating themselves sexually.

I am one of those people, and I may be personally biased, who wishes that I had some place to come out of the closet besides a bar.

Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.

Love the moment and the energy of the moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

I don't know whether your heart ever necessarily changes, but time changes the way that you perceive the world. And you just hope it gives you more empathy and all those other things.

God himself must needs be traduced, if there is no unicorn in the world.

I'm sick of everything, and of the everythingness of everything.

You can detach your attention from yourself and go anywhere. You can wander the universe. Big deal!

Predict the inevitable", she said, "and you're bound to be right one day.

Sometimes your whole life could hinge on a fraction of an inch. Or the beat of a nanosecond. Or the knock on a door.

For months I've been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me.

[Donald] Trump's own arrogance gets in the way. It's as if he steps on his own tongue regularly.