As long as we remember a person, they're not really gone. Their thoughts, their feelings, their memories, they become a part of us.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

A real musician ain’t gonna choose his own guitar like an evil master choosing his slave. The guitar will choose his master and when he does, you’ll know it.

The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.

Part of our society kills what it loves, despises what it's created. It really hates success.

In a thing, they can create a pretext coined hundreds of excuses , but the truth is only one.

It was a special feeling, irreplaceable, that was priceless. No queen on the throne could feel more important than me.

After months and months at the top of the polls, there is a real possibility that Donald Trump could be the nominee.

In your own life, you should take particular care with endings, for their color will forever tinge your memory of the entire relationship and your willingness to reenter it.

The reason that some singers go on to become great artists has very little to do with their voices, but rather with the fact that they have used their instruments as tools for detailed communication.

Hip-hop, you can't really do that when you're in your 50s.