The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there’s always a key out there that opens it.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.

To trust someone is to take the greatest risk of all. (180)

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Each novel is harder than its predecessor because I must work harder at not repeating myself. However, I enjoy the challenge. This is the greatest job in the world.

I look away, but we've caught each other. And I know this wasn't just a ghost story to him, even if it was to the others.

Everyone wants to impress somebody...- That's how it works!

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

Few cultures have not produced the idea that in some past era the world ran better than it does now.

Anytime I write something that's trying to be too smart, it doesn't work.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Of course, with the increasing number of aeroplanes one gains increased opportunities for shooting down one's enemies, but at the same time, the possibility of being shot down one's self increases.

For a lot of explosions and stuff like that [in Transformers] you're harnessed to something getting swung in the air or dragged onto something or thrown onto something.

Our mission is to go after Al Qaeda, not the Taliban. Right now, they are in Pakistan, not Afghanistan. We should go after them wherever they are.