It is important not to force a character into something. Fiction writers can be too controlling - usually that's a terror of our own unconscious processes.

I like to look at how people work together when they are put into stressful situations, when life stops being cozy.

Art can make a difference because it pulls people up short. It says, don't accept things for their face value; you don't have to go along with any of this; you can think for yourself.

I don't know how to answer. I know what I think, but words in the head are like voices underwater. They are distorted.

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Happiness is a specific. Misery is a generalization. People usually know exactly why they are happy. They very rarely know why they are miserable.

Quest is at the heart of what I do-the holy grail, and the terror that you'll never find it, seemed a perfect metaphor for life.

I find pieces of myself everywhere, and I cut myself handling them.

Do you fall in love often?" Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a cat, with numbers, with friends, with complete strangers, with nothing at all.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Life cannot be calculated. That's the big mistake our civilization made. We never accepted that randomness is not a mistake in the equation -- it is part of the equation.

Money is not the priority. A step to dream big and planning of your dreams is a premier action that will see you through a start of your journey to success.

The best things in this world are meant to be fought for." -Kearney

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

Not only was I not white, to many people I wasn’t Asian either

She's taking pictures! Maryse, put it on Twitter!

In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you should be surrendered.

Love lasts because it changes and not because it stays the same and never faces any challenges.

I'd like to be remembered as a man who went to Heaven and not another place.

Each dream you leave behind is a part of your future that will no longer exist.

I suppose everything is bound to look different when you aren't on your way to die.