You can only give things up once they start to let you down.

No pain is too small if it hurts, but any pain is too big if it's cherished.

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

It seems people spend the majority of their lives believing they're dying, with the only consolation being that at one point they get to be right.

People never remeber happiness with the care that they lavish on preserving every detail of their suffering.

Everything was usual. That was depression: being stuck, clinging to an out-of-date version of oneself.

I think that some laughter comes from escaped horror, doesn't it?

I'm not trying to uncover the facts of my life but to discover the dramatic truth of the situations I was in.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Detachment is what interests me, seeing how people couldn't have been any other way, how they were the product of forces that they had no control over.

The whole Melrose series is an attempt to tell the truth, and is based on the idea that there is some salutary or liberating power in telling the truth.

Inaction is no longer acceptable.

One day he will leave, or die, or betray me like so many others have. One day, he will hurt me.

All great works start with mistake. Ain’t no exception in this fact.

Life at times is a bunch of crap, the nice part about crap is that it's biodegradable.

It's not new: In the '70s, Archie Bunker said terrible things on 'All in the Family, ' but it was all in Carroll O'Connor's performance. You saw lack of intelligence, and you laughed.

Force rules the world-not opinion; but it is opinion that makes use of force.

A lot of life is just surviving what happens.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

How many more people have to die or be afraid or be injured in Chelsea, New York, Erin, for us to wake up?

We contacted the FBI months ago, when the DNC issue came about. They've reviewed all of our systems. We have hacking detection systems in place.