Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

Like a sparrow in its flitting, like a swallow in its flying, a curse that is causeless does not alight.

My parents were willing to let me follow my nose, do what I wanted to do, and they supported my interest by buying the books that I wanted for birthdays and Christmas, almost always poetry books.

Change is tough, people don't like it, but it is necessary. Take two aspirins and call me in the morning.

Whenever you see somebody's style you feel like you get to know them a little bit better by how they're dressed.

One eare it heard, at the other out it went.

The best-laid plans of mice and comedians usually wind up on the cutting-room floor.

Whatever happens to the art world, art will go on regardless. As for obscurity, it looms just over the horizon beckoning us all. Why worry.

God forgets those who reject proof that they are wrong.

Relationship is a mirror.. Every moment the other reveals you, exposes you. The closer the relationship, the clearer is the mirror.