I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

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.

You can radically alter the worth of your life when you develop inner voices that serve and support your true purpose.

Do you ever just sit there and cry, and you say Wow I had no idea I had this many feelings suppressed?

The day time will stop moving, had I known and fulfillment will be the clock hands that will show many people the hour that passed and moment in which they are.

If you're going to choose to do something like the Paleo Diet, then you choose not to enjoy your nights out.

Unless you are able to influence the way others think and act, your chances for success are limited.

Each age has its choice of the death it will die.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment

Brains can argue, but it takes heart to comfort.

You know what lies are for.