I want to be violated by insight.

We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.

It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.

Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.

As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.

Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.

…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.

...a Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.

Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.

I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

The silence was worse than the gunshots. The wait worse than the confusion. The forebode worsethan any danger.

The best way to encourage out of the box thinking is to draw the box correctly in the first place.

Change is a road less traveled, but a remarkable journey to take.

Everything’s bad, until you find something worse.

For lo the winter is past the rain is over and gone the flowers appear on the earth.

We should make decisions in life with our hearts, not our brains, not only in music but in daily life.

I don't think about financial success as the measurement of my success.

What are they after?” Kat asked. “Hard to say,” Hale said; again, he eyed the room. “Who is that?” Macey asked. “The reason I wasn’t flirting with you,” Hale told her.

I love to think big and with the right people on board I know I can make anything.

You cannot go against nature. She is stronger than the strongest of men. We can permit ourselves some liberties, but in details only.