No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.

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 can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Don't forget to enjoy the winter, but never give up hopes for the spring.

Those with dissociative disorders face a big enough battle living as multiples and dealing with past trauma. Like everyone else, they deserve to be heard and recognised, not stigmatised.

A total acceptance of yourself brings about a total transcendence of yourself.

One cannot be too careful with words, they change their minds just as people do.

When he saw injustice, he wanted to do away with it. He saw communism, and he wanted to put an end to it.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

I am young, it is true; but in noble souls valor does not wait for years.

We have to go about our business. Certainly, we'd love to have Roger aboard. There's no doubt about it. We also understand his thought process, what he's going through to try to make this decision.

On a personal level, just for me in my own work, I would say the most interesting thing has been getting to work with the people that I've worked with.