My favorite random email I got was from some guy who wrote: "Mr. Max, with the hope of a six year old on the night before Christmas asking about Santa, I ask the same question: Do you really exist?

I am Shiva, Destroyer of Worlds.

The devil doesn't come dressed in a red cape and pointy horns. He comes as everything you've ever wished for.

You show me a truly funny girl who doesn't have emotional issues, and I'll introduce you to my stable of unicorn thoroughbreds ridden by leprechaun jockeys.

Men will treat you the way you let them. There is no such thing as 'deserving' respect; you get what you demand from people.

The great stories go to those who aren't afraid to live them

You ever wake up in the middle of the night because a couple of cats are clawing each other to death outside your window? That's what it's like listening to you speak.

I will never understand why people get so upset at things I don't even remember saying.

I laugh at people who say things like 'I'm a good person, I just do bad things.' No, that's not how it works. What you do IS who you are.

The hardest lesson I've had to learn in my life is that my intelligence is inversely correlated to my humility. The more I thought I knew, the less I actually knew.

The narcissist act is not an act. I actually am a narcissist, very much so. My world revolves around me.

I don't talk ill about people I don't know, " said Bartleby. "I only disparage them in silence and hope they die.

In a social media world, the danger is being overexposed and when something is overexposed it is no longer interesting...if ever it was.

Another term for preventive war is aggressive war - starting wars because someday somebody might do something to us. That is not part of the American tradition.

I've done what I could as a painter and that seems to me to be sufficient. I don't want to be compared to the great masters of the past, and my painting is open to criticism; that's enough.

I really suggest the Pendragon series to all readers unless you are afraid of gore!

There's not a sense that the person who is waiting on the table is somehow a lesser person that the person who is eating in the restaurant.

I think that when you are famous, it can work against you, people have preconceptions about your image.

A gentleman never offends unintentionally

we need to let our errors awaken, transform, and change us by taking them to heart, owning them.

Movement is good for the body. Stillness is good for the mind.