If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Sometimes a book isn't a heartbreaking work of staggering genius.Sometimes it's the only story you knew how to tell.

No one can win every battle, but no man should fall without a struggle

He had scores to settle with the world, and she, at that moment, was world enough for him.

You know, Junpei, everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does.

Ghosts are some of the loneliest people you will ever meet.

I admit I'm enthusiastically demanding.

What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness.

Who's your soul's mate? Consciousness. Soul is your conscious mate. Guru keeps you conscious.

Some women pick men to marry--and others pick them to pieces.

The foundation of justice is good faith.