To put someone in jail for using drugs in the privacy of his hotel room is just barbaric.

There are criminals who are drug users, but most addicts are criminals only by virtue of prohibition or from resorting to crime to pay inflated black market prices.

Not everyone can or wants to go straight.

Miss Child is never bashful with butter.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

History,' Mari muttered, as if she'd overheard his thoughts. 'Why do we need to know what happened before we were born?' 'So hopefully we get smarter and don't make the same mistakes again.

When God is in sharp focus, then life is also undistorted.

I can't tell you how many times in the '90s I'd meet somebody, we'd be having a nice time, and they'd sigh and go, 'This is exactly like Before Sunrise.' And I'd have to get up and leave.

Revenge is never the best driver for a battle, but a common one.

I recognize that there are some great things about not playing a song live, and just kind of piecing it together as you go.

Essentially, whoever is successful, whoever is going to do things that make a difference, is going to be talked about.

Change equals self improvement. Push yourself to places you haven't been before.

A lot of my characters in all of my books have a self-destructive urge. They'll do precisely the thing that they know is wrong, take a perverse delight in doing the wrong thing.