You've been killing me inside and I don't want to die like this.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

True love is usually the most inconvenient kind.

Such grief might be to them quite delicious, a delicacy.

Find out what you like doing best and get someone to pay you for it.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit.

the best of all good friends is pride.

I want to feel my life while I'm in it.

Much of what we see in America, what most people feel has been progress and good things, have been brought about by the existence of third parties.

It is always sound business to take any obtainable net gain, at any cost, and at any risk to the rest of the community.

We are all just monkeys with money and guns.