My childhood was spent in my local library in a San Diego suburb. It's where I became a writer - by 1st becoming a reader!

The dead do not hurt you; only the living do.

That's what falling in love really amounted to, your brain on drugs. Adrenaline and dopamine, oxytocin and serotonin. Chemical insanity, celebrated by poets.

Only the forgotten are truly dead.

We dream our dreams, and sometimes they take us to places we never anticipate. But they are our dreams, and we go where they lead.

Where we go depends on what we know, and what we know depends on where we go.

The most intimate feeling people can share is neither love nor hate, but pain.

The one man you most want to sleep with may be the worst choice of all.

The Christmas tree, twinkling with lights, had a mountain of gifts piled up beneath it, like offerings to the great god of excess.

Death does not discriminate; whether saints or sinners, in the end, all are equal.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

Everyone has their own purpose on this earth. It's up to you to figure out what your purpose in life is. No one can make that decision for you.

Customers are human and humans can view situations in unexpected ways.

Loneliness is a state when you have not yet grown to love yourself enough.

The sense of national emergency engendered by war transforms the destruction of dissident opinion into patriotism.

Confucianism is all about tempering your instincts with intellectual discipline, with book learning.

I heard recently that I used to date Patrick Swayze.

When love comes, it comes without effort like the perfect weather.

He that in ye mine of knowledge deepest diggeth, hath, like every other miner, ye least breathing time, and must sometimes at least come to terr. alt. for air.

Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately.

The victors called the revolution a triumph of liberty; but now and then liberty in the slogans of the strong means freedom from restraint in the exploitation of the weak.