I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

It's as though I've been sleepwalking and suddenly woken to find myself here

[The official prosecutors] ... were more vengeful on behalf of our injuries than I myself could ever be.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

You are what you are when nobody is looking.

I bullshit on the phone all day with a variety of people discussing various projects, and occasionally write jokes.

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started.

There are a lot of things to my game I can still improve, but everyone can.

People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing.

As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.

'What is celebration?' Rather than dancing, rather than laughing, rather than loving, rather than enjoying this silence, the mind asks: 'What is celebration?'

For whoever knows how to return a kindness he has received must be a friend above all price.