When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

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.

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.

I can live without you. I just don’t wish to.” ~ Joe

More children suffer from interference than from non-interference.

I've been playing the game so long that my handicap is in Roman numerals.

The prophet Zechariah warns that any nation that touches Jerusalem will be cut off.

Here there be monster." Bob whispered, half hysterically. "Run! Run already!

These two rules make the best system: first, have something to say; second, say it.

Something like The Haunting is not worth the slightest consideration from me.

The confessions don't speak with one voice. They are more like a cluster of closely-related but distinct voices - a kind of choir, if you like.

Though the names 'karma', 'yoga' and 'sannyasa' are different, the truth at the heart of both is the same.