When I was seventeen, I worked as a counsellor at a co-ed sleep-away camp for eight weeks. I loved it but it could be harrowing - it was far too much responsibility for someone my age.

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.

Be Practical." That's probably the most stupid piece of advice I've ever received in my life.

But if it be a sin to covet honour, I am the most offending soul alive.

I guess, we were people who just dedicated to trying to get better.

Life is not unfair. Life is what you make of it.

Apathy is one of the characteristic responses of any living organism when it is subjected to stimuli too intense or too complicated to cope with. The cure for apathy is comprehension.

I like a calm life where nobody bothers me.

Conflict is resolved not through compromise, but through invention.

If what we said cannot go beyond the century we live in, it means that we have said nothing. Let us say something for all the centuries!

Learn to write the same way you learn to play golf. You do it and keep doing it until you get it right.