People don't want to accept the responsibility for their own weakness, so they place the blame on something that they're not responsible for, like disease or genetics.

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.

Much of the joy in falling in love with fictional characters comes from being able to envision new stories from them.

Believe me. Everything is meant.

I don't think she's ever coming back.

If my mom reads that I'm grammatically incorrect I'll have hell to pay.

The proposal that men and women should be treated equally under the law is hardly a controversial concept.

The important thing is to take your time and not get stressed.

We hate merit while it is with us; when taken away from our gaze, we long for it jealously.

I am not going to say I told you so, but I did.

Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

My family is from Russia and Poland. We never had that thing with the German Jews.