When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing; it's rejuvenating.

I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

If we are not ashamed to think it, we should not be ashamed to say it.

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things.

Sometimes GOD places walls NOT to hold us back, but to test our determination

I think test screenings with an audience are useful because they have no dog in the fight, they just say how they feel.

Your self-image controls your performance; see yourself as confident and in complete control

You invited him into bed?" Simon demanded, looking shaken. "Ridiculous, isn't it?" said Jace. "We would never have all fit.

I felt like my pregnancy was a sacred moment for me. I stayed in Boston and I didn't work apart from the contracts I have, and then I only let them use my face.

Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.

There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.