Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

There are some people that if they don't know you can't tell 'em.

It's rare that I come across actors who are willing to work as hard on the material as I am

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

Quaintness is creepy. So let's maximize that.

I think men talk to women so they can sleep with them and women sleep with men so they can talk to them.

If you're trying to force the story to be a straight up romance, it's going to be weird for you.

He speaks truly who speaks the shade.

Working together, America's military, Iraqi security forces and the Iraqi people have won a major battle in the war on terrorism.

We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.

We are very puritan in America. We still hold true to these really antiquated values, this idea of the sanctity of marriage.