How is it possible to exist with so much pain?

If I don't cry while writing a key emotional scene, my gut feeling is it's failed.

You only get one life. It's actually your duty to live it as fully as possible.

Some mistakes... Just have greater consequences than others. But you don't have to let the result of one mistake be the thing that defines you. You, Clark, have the choice not to let that happen.

I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn’t have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him.

Push yourself. Don't Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.

There is a hunger in you. A fearlessness. You just buried it, like most people do.

Because even if the whole world was throwing rocks at you, if you still had your mother or father at your back, you'd be okay.

And it was suddenly very simple: There was no choice.

There is a whole lot more to life than winning.

But just as nature abhors a vacuum -- so does the human heart.

Who is this repulsive dwarf?

Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.

I started to explore computers on my own and first used one at the age of 6, when I was in first grade.

I never had a plan B. I feel if u have a plan B, you are giving yourself the chance to never accomplish plan A. My plan B was to accomplish plan A.

Slander is poison to the soul.

Writing is always a process of discovery—I never know the end, or even the events on the next page, until they happen. There’s a constant interplay between the imagining and shaping of the story.

I'm interested in what the virtues of all those things are, especially for the kind of person who's made their own world that revolves around them, like writers do. It seems especially precious.

We need diversity in our population to make it work.

Listen to others' advice and deliberate yourself. Only fools acts thoughtlessly, without consideration!

Texas is a great state. It's the 'Old Man River' of states. No matter who runs it or what happens to it politically, it just keeps rolling along!