Writers live twice.

Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

Trust in what you love, continue to do it, and it will take you where you need to go.

Handwriting is more connected to the movement of the heart.

We are important and our lives are important, magnificent really, and their details are worthy to be recorded.

I used to think freedom meant doing whatever you want. It means knowing who you are, what you are supposed to be doing on this earth, and then simply doing it.

This is your life. You are responsible for it. You will not live forever. Don't wait.

Writers end up writing about their obsessions. Things that haunt them; things they can’t forget; stories they carry in their bodies waiting to be released.

It is odd that we never question the feasibility of a football team practicing long hours for one game; yet in writing we rarely give ourselves the space for practice.

Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open.

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

...don’t judge your future based on others’ mistakes.

You must persistence long enough to triumph.

Always do good when you're tempted to do evil. The reward in doing good is priceless.

Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.

I've found that doing interviews forces you to face yourself; I'm constantly having to search within myself, to see why I do certain things.

The Test arena is a place I have been desperate to get back to, it is the pinnacle of the sport

Sometimes your friends take you ten steps backwards for every step you take forward. Sometimes misplaced loyalty ruins your destiny.

My intent was not to go after Rush - I have enormous respect for Rush Limbaugh. I was maybe a little bit inarticulate. ... There was no attempt on my part to diminish his voice or his leadership.

C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.