I did a lot of reading of the Bible and became fascinated with the idea of the Rapture. It's pretty wild. I hadn't heard of it until I was in college.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

When things don't go well, it helps to think of yourself as a genius and the rest of the world as a bunch of idiots.

Every minute we were together, I felt like I was wandering in the dark through a strange house, groping for a light switch. And then, whenever I found one and turned it on, the bulb was dead.

Sooner or later we all lose our loved ones. We all have to suffer, every last one of us.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I don't really distinguish between sympathy and honesty when I'm writing. The two go together - I'm interested in inhabiting my characters, seeing the world through their eyes.

He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.

Hope was other people, no matter what the philosophers said. And this was a time that needed hope.

Another source of fallacy is the vicious circle of illusions which consists on the one hand of believing what we see, and on the other in seeing what we believe.

Let your light shine, never look back and live as if today is your last day...because it just might be.

I do love her, and that’s odd because she is everything I detest in anyone else.

I'm a prankster, so some of the - you know, I like a good joke. I think when it's funny, it's funny.

It is not deeds or acts that last: it is the written record of those deeds and acts.

My life would be in danger if I return to Mexico.

The best way to avoid warfare is if no one shows up.

The obstacle in the path becomes the path. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition.

A clear understanding of negative emotions dismisses them.