I'm not very happy idle. There's always this voice in my head that says, 'I should be writing.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

There's an amazing world out there for you to discover, Henry Denton, but you have to be willing to discover yourself first.

Wisdom supersedes knowledge in all venues outside of perhaps "presence".

Hurt is a great teacher, maybe the greatest of all.

Think like the great, speak like the great, act like the great, and you will become like the great.

I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.

Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion.

In this world, emotion has become suspect - the accepted style is smooth, antiseptic and passionless.

People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.

The whole world had changed. Only the fairy tales remained the same. "And they lived happily ever after.

Being an artist means belonging to a unique, exciting gang of outlaws.