I keep in too many of the words I need to let out. And then I let out too many of the words I need to keep in.

Angry driver is angry human and how you drive is how you are. You can tell me the drive is different than the driver, but I haven't seen it to be.

Hello? Do you see me? I'm working as creatively as possible and you want more and more and I'm out of juice and if you send me one more email I'm going to walk into the ocean and swallow water.

There were always choices. I’d made a string of bad ones myself. At least I could admit that.

Being angry at the mistakes made by the heart will only leave you bitter.

The paradox of real love is that our capacity to sustain intimacy rests on our capacity to tolerate aloneness inside the relationship.

I will come out with my interpretation. If I'm wrong, fine. It will become part of the debris of history, part of the give and take.

As soon as you talk about something that hasn't happened yet, it's bad luck.

The guy who trains the hardest, the most, wins.

Writing fiction, like reading fiction, is a practice in empathy.

For the world, I count it not an inn, but a hospital; and a place not to live, but to die in.

[States and the Federal government are] coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole... The one is the domestic, the other the foreign branch of the same government.

Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.