You can't be a victim and heal.

To a Christian, Easter Sunday means everything, when we celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Stress is a function not of events, but of our view of those events.

The pain of discipline is nothing like the pain of disappointment

Be decisive. A wrong decision is generally less disastrous than indecision.

Life consists only of moments, nothing more than that. So if you make the moment matter, it all matters

The seeds of civilization are in every culture, but it is city life that brings them to fruition.

Certainty is a cruel mindset. It hardens our minds against possibility.

What we have learned to look for in a situation determines mostly what we see.

Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

People are at their most mindful when they are at play. If we find ways of enjoying our work blurring the lines between work and play the gains will be greater.

Please, Kenzie, Jonah thought. Please, please, please back off from this. His life wasn't much, but it was all he had, this small safe space, walled in by secrets.

It seems to me that my whole life I've been standing on some tower or a pillbox or a trampoline, waving the names of writers, as if we needed rescue. And the first person I had to rescue was myself.

I was a compulsive eater in my late teens and until I wrote Diet for a Small Planet, so I know what it feels like when food becomes a threat.

The mind paints before the brush.

Leave my diapers moist in the back seat of your Rolls Royce

... to write well it is entirely necessary to read widely and deeply. Good poems are the best teachers.

Been sitting at home all weekend writing for MTV Movie Awards - unfortunately MTV won't let me do my strip routine ala Magic Mike.

I hate nostalgia, it's laziness with prettier accessories.

I have a history of disregarding orders. - Mitch Rapp

I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.