You had nightmares every night for a long time and screamed in Korean words, but we didn't know what they meant. I asked someone who knew Korean, and he said it was um-ma um-ma, the word for mom.

I'm ready for the day when Mom loves me too much to keep me, and for every other person who will someday see that I'm not worth holding on to.

So I heard the boom of my father's rifle when he shot my best friend. A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that.

The problem with being an author in this modern world is such: computers break often

Nothing ever turns out the way people expect it to.

The Devil did not tempt Adam and Eve to steal, to lie, to kill, to commit adultery; he tempted them to live independent of God.

Only the human brain can deliberately change perceptions, change patterns, invent concepts and tolerate ambiguity.

If I ever teach writing again, I’d say the first lesson is to listen.

When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

Overhead the sanctities of the stars shine forever-more... pouring satire on the pompous business of the day which they close, and making the generations of men show slight and evanescent.

If you want to be miserable, think of yourself. If you want to be happy, think of others.