I am very privileged and honored when someone chooses to read a book, especially a book of mine.

Nobody gets to pick their time to die, but living every day to the max is something we all get to do.

Pain and suffering are the soil of strength and courage.

None of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

You don't know me, but I know about you...I can't make you live longer. I can't stop you from hurting. But I can give you one wish, as someone did for me.

Who wants to be used? I love to read, so books are my main friends. They're always available, always friendly, and always interesting, and they never make me choose sides.

If I can't wait for you at the end of an aisle on your wedding day, I'll wait for you in heaven.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

But they can't know how the dark space inside me is growing. I lie to them. I can't get out of the dark hole. 'Peace is here' it whispers.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.

I know I have an eccentric, obsessive-compulsive side.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.

[On men:] ... you never know what they're like until you get them home and take them out of their packages.

The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation.

On Sanjay and Craig, Ive had a number of chances to work with Chris Hardwick, and that is so much fun.

Religion must always be a crab fruit; it cannot be grafted, and keep its wild beauty.

Design is inherently optimistic. That is its power.