You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should've behaved better.

One thing I know for sure about raising children is that every single day a kid needs discipline.... But also every single day a kid needs a break.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind.

Because this business of becoming conscious, of being a writer, is ultimately about asking yourself, How alive am I willing to be?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life is being lived.

You don't always have to chop with the sword of truth. You can point with it too.

For me and most of the other writers I know, writing is not rapturous. In fact, the only way I can get anything written at all is to write really, really shitty first drafts.

Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door.

A writer paradoxically seeks the truth and tells lies every step of the way.

Bird by bird buddy. Just take it bird by bird.

What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.

Failure is the ultimate motivator, the supreme teacher, and the definitive guarantee of life. Failure is what makes success so addictive.

In all cities, the better classes - the business men - are the sources of corruption, but they are so rarely pursued and caught that we do not fully realize whence the trouble comes.

I went to the actual SVU precinct... and got a really good sense of what it was like.

Usually the way to screw up some good fishing is to have a tournament. This just keeps getting better and better.

I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards.

Easy was for people too weak to suck it up and do what needed to be done. And I wasn’t weak. Not anymore.

Users are innocent for they can not really make sure if their information is safe or not.

Do parents sit down and tell their kids everything? I don't know. I don't know. I've convinced myself - I hope I'm right - that children despair of you if you don't tell them the truth.

I am attracted to people who make this effort in knowing what suits them - they are individual and stylish.