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

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.

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.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Every story I've written was written because I had to write it. Writing stories is like breathing for me

By no means do I think that playing games online is wrong or rude. However, constantly sending requests is an act of bad manners as well as being very annoying to the one receiving them.

Those mausoleums of inactive masculinity are places for men who prefer armchairs to women.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.

I almost think that hope is for the soul what breathing is for the living organism. Where hope is lacking the soul dries up and withers.

If you stop someone who's talking about something being fun, and say "Well what do you mean?" it's almost impossible to answer.

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

Because in fantasy perhaps more than in any other genre, the character is rewarded for making the right choices and punished for making the bad. Ask Boromir.

Im not reckless. I was never reckless.

The most peculiar social self which one is apt to have is in the mind of the person one is in love with.