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.

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.

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.

You need to learn how to walk the world, he told me. There's a lot out there.

Happiness is not a goal...it's a by-product of a life well lived.

They made you an Amendment and convinced you it meant 'American.

The boy's got a lot to learn and I've got a lot to teach.

The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science.

When something good comes your way, you better feel fortunate, because it doesn't last forever.

Those moments in your life when you feel absolute exhilaration are moments of complete alignment with the Source within you.

I remain God's humble servant.

You know no one ever accomplishes something like this without a lot of help from good people along the way. And this is certainly true in my case, and I would like to thank some of those people.

For the most part, everybody who fights in war fights to survive.

While we see democracy coming to the Arab world, democracy is getting weaker in Israel. Democracy is in jeopardy in Israel, and this threat is greater than the external threat.