What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Magic's just science that we don't understand yet.

When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.

Always consider who you’re learning from. Don’t listen to people who are not experiencing the success you want.

Family trips to Yellowstone and to what are now national parks in Southern Utah, driving the primitive roads and cars of that day, were real adventures.

What we really need is to realize how little we really need.

We need to bring personal responsibility back to the family!

For instance, in places like universities, where everyone speaks so rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.

There is a taint of death, a flavour of mortality in lies.

The most difficult of enterprises is to secure the cooperation of others in enterprises those others did not think of first.

The only way I can lose my mind in bed is to destroy myself in a fantasy.