I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

It's a cold world when no one will touch you.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

Follow the ways of God.

The key to success for Sony, and to everything in business, science and technology for that matter, is never to follow the others.

When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.

My conscience aches but it's going to lose the fight.

every word calls up far more of a picture than its actual meaning is supposed to do, and the writer has to deal with all these silent associations as well as with the uttered significance.

I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a painting by Goya.

Life can be cruel. It´s been my struggle, my personal battle, my obsession to make people see that different isn´t always bad.

I'd say, if you want to be an artist, start with your art; start with making great music and it will, hopefully, eventually cut through all of the nonsense that is out there.

Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way." The Lama in Kim

Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die In L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)