There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

He who dares not offend cannot be honest.

I am shedding.I am not a new me.I am my old me in my new me.I remain, carved with the soul of my knife.My mess scattered all over my countenance. I am me. Take me as I am.

Why should we give God thanks? Because everything we have comes from God.

It's more in my nature to be optimistic, I think. I'm one of those people who gets up on the right side of the bed in the morning.

If it Captures Your Imagination, it will captivate others.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?

When we have passed a certain age, the soul of the child we were and the souls of the dead from whom we have sprung come to lavish on us their riches and their spells.

So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows.

Our contention has always been that Shakespeare is our greatest living author. If he can survive a season on Broadway, he must be.