Writing is grunt work - you need to have self-motivation, perseverance, and faith... talent is the smallest part of it.

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

Oh, Gods."His eyes shone with want and predatory satisfaction. "The name's William. It's a common mistake.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.

The Christian Constitutional Society, its object is first: The support of the Christian religion. Second: The support of the United States.

People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit.

I look at myself as someone who has been very lucky - my job is also what I enjoy most in the world, and I can make my life doing it.

The idol is the measure of the worshipper.

I have much clearer memories of my time in Egypt: songs on the radio, the rhythms that accompanied belly dancers, the sound of the adhan - the Muslim call to prayer. I just soaked it all up.

There is music in all things, if men had ears.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Religion is not a bridge between God and Man; it is a Great Wall of China between them!