The most important advice I can offer is that writing is a craft that you can learn by practicing. If you keep writing, you will improve.

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

Being in love is one of the most powerful experiences anyone can have. I think that's why we have crushes when we're younger. Maybe it's how we get ready for real love.

In quiet moments, I love to read.

That was how it always was with Colleen: No matter how sad she felt, there was always this little bit of hope - like a speck of glitter caught in your eyelash - that never went away, no matter what.

Colleen had this idea -- a faded, crumpled, smudged idea -- that being nice counted for something.

Memory, all-night's bedside tattoo artist.

The problem with parents is that they're adults.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

Everybody has to die, Firdaus. I will die, and you will die. The important thing is how to live until you die.

If life ever ceased to be an educational experience. I probably wouldn't get out of bed in the morning.

We shall reach greater and greater platitudes of achievment.

The American people don't want Obamacare. It has been forced on the American people, despite the fact that Democrats no longer control the House.

I've been able to do things that allow me to hold my head up and still be popular.

I think that's become passe, but if you can surround yourself with a kind of monument to yourself and your family - a statement - and you can afford it, then that's a noble project.