Talk when you talk, walk when you walk, and die when you die.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

I know certain truths about life.

La plus grande chute est celle qu'on fait du haut de l'innocence.

[H]ow can something cease to exist that has no solid existence in the first place?

The stranger smiled at her. "Humanity has found a cure to a disease they never new existed.

I wanted to marry a girl just like my mom.

I wouldn't say the world is my parish, but my readers are my parish. And especially the readers that write to me. They're my parish. And it's a responsibility that I enjoy.

As image-bearers of God, human beings likewise create in ways that reflect our identity.

You feel like a prisoner if you don't create. You're jailed up inside of yourself.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking.