They have sown the wind and they shall reap the whirlwind.

You mean she doesn’t intend to blow me up before the ceremony?” said Kai, taking the box. “How disappointing.

Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

I always tell beginning runners: Train your brain first. It's much more important than your heart or legs.

A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.

Boxers are hot, and by boxers I mean guys who box, not the underwear. So get rid of 'em!

There are two kinds of success. One is musical or artistic and the other is commercial.

This is what those who haven’t crossed the tropic of grief often fail to understand: the fact that someone is dead may mean that they are not alive, but doesn’t mean that they do not exist.

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

The success doesn't define you. The success isn't what gave you the edge in the first place. The failure didn't give me the edge, either.

None of us is perfect, but the point of our writing is to try to become better, to learn something that we may not have already realized, about ourselves, about the world we inhabit.