When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

When you become a teenager, you step onto a bridge. You may already be on it. The opposite shore is adulthood. Childhood lies behind. The bridge is made of wood. As you cross, it burns behind you

I’m more than twisted. I’m the worst kind of vampire… But you’re the one who’s craving me, so what does that make you?

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

Boredom like necessity is very often the mother of invention.

It is my belief that we as human beings have a need to tell stories - I think it's evolutionary. So you can think of the short story as a literary form, or you can instead think of stories.

No problem is so big and difficult that it can't be blamed on somebody else.

I look for a good story. Usually the best stories are the ones that are unbelievably true. 'Soul Surfer' is one of those stories.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before.

If your name is getting too heavy, you should have Kvothe give you a new one.

Being condemned by fate to perpetual togetherness, we better make that shared fate into our shared, consciously and gladly embraced, destiny.