I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

They will never stop talking about you! No one can tell your story like you can!

If you have to fight old enemies, you should do it with your own old soldiers.

Every year, feminists provide more and more evidence for the old charge that women can neither think nor write.

It used to be said that when the U.S. sneezed, the world caught a cold. The opposite is equally true today.

Few things worth having can be got easily.

You shouldn't just pick a stock - you should do your homework.

One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

What distinguishes the artist from the dilettante? Only the pain the artist feels. The dilettante looks only for pleasure in art.

To the extent anybody had heard of the [Charles] Kushner name at that point, it was a very tarnished name.