When people say there is too much violence in my books, what they are saying is there is too much reality in life.

Memory blurs, that's the point. If memory didn't blur you wouldn't have the fool's courage to do things again, again, again, that tear you apart.

Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another's skin, another's voice, another's soul.

I never change, I simply become more myself.

How lovely this world is, really: one simply has to look.

Our enemy is by tradition our savior, in preventing us from superficiality.

Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.

Night comes to the desert all at once, as if someone turned off the light.

Keep a light, hopeful heart. But ­expect the worst.

See, people come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be

Be your own editor/critic. Sympathetic but merciless!

If words had weight, a single sentence from Death would have anchored a ship.

Having begun to feel, people’s desire to feel grew. They wanted to feel more, feel deeper, despite how it sometimes hurt. People became addicted to feeling. They struggled to uncover new emotions.

It's all in the reflexes.

It’s not always best to know what’s going on beneath the surface.

It takes simplicity and humility to worship God acceptably.

There's a part in every person that has a fake self. We've had this since infancy due to our parents and our upbringing.

I'm not trying to be a celebrity, Justin Timberlake kinda guy.

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

The guys that improve every year are those that are always adding something to their game.

That red carpet has to be felt to be believed.