Nice characters are boring!

All of us change. Everyone in this world, from birth to death, becomes someone new. Again and again, we are remade.

Expect the unexpected, my mother once said. Because the unexpected most certainly will be expecting you.

I am vulnerable, starved for kindness. And when I receive it, I lose my mind.

Moscow was, as some said, the most beautiful mistress a man could ever want, but never cross her: like any good woman, she might just cut off your balls for the hell of it.

Miracles pass and I see. Great wonders speak and I listen.

I've got a black-belt in crazy, and I know where you live.

Being alone was easier. No risk, just loneliness. No one ever died from that.

The one thing about being a creator, about being an artist, is that you get to explore your ideas. We're fortunate that we're in the position to do that, and I don't take it for granted.

Nice characters are boring! I like writing upbeat characters - that's my natural tendency.

Religion was no cure for dysfunction.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Once writing becomes an act of listening instead of an act of speech, a great deal of the ego goes out of it.

I've always suffered from being labelled a horror writer - just because I didn't go to university, just because I still talk in my natural voice, just because I'm not as articulate as Martin Amis.

I believe becoming healthy and working out saved my life by giving me the confidence and self worth to achieve my goals.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Be very slow to go into looking for solutions.

I was not fortunate enough to run into Obama. We were at the same church per se, but I would never be there when he was there.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

Forget yourself! Think courage.