It's difficult to carry the weight of responsibilities. But, it's more difficult to carry the weight of expectations.

Achievement and fearfulness can't stay together.

It's easy to be with someone who is completely different from you, but difficult when that person holds starkly different opinions from you.

You can never learn/improve if you are too proud to accept criticism.

Sometimes, we are simply trapped in the cage of our own emotions, unable to break those bars. It hurts!

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Everyone, except a writer, thinks writing is easy. Writing is tough. Being a disciplined writer is tougher.

Reading/writing is a chance to live a different life in a different world.

There's no rule for better writing. Make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

There's no rule for better writing. It's best to make your own rules, and see what works best for you.

It's true that we, writers, write (create) books, but eventually, a good book gives birth to a good, established writer.

Conquer fear and you have conquered all.

If love was a choice, who would ever choose such exquisite pain?

Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.

This is like a tribute to them, the people who helped me to get here. The thing that makes me feel good about the whole thing is, the fans voted me here.

Seasonal change in Los Angeles is often a very subtle thing. It's not as if we finally stop having to shovel the snow out of our driveways and can put our parkas back in the closet.

Everyone in Nashville's got DUIs because there's no public transportation and everyone's too lazy to call a taxi.

Oneness is inner silence, which remains undisturbed by external factors. This silence is not the opposite of noise. That is inner Oneness.

Paul Scholes would have been one of my first choices for putting together a great team.

Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind.

I've been known to throw watermelons, backstage, at people who are giving me news I don't want to hear. But I never aim for the head.