If you aren't willing to put your best work out there, write for yourself. Don't ever publish.

People who say you can't do something should be ignored. They're probably talking to themselves.

I'd be lying if I said killing off characters wasn't therapeutic in some way.

Writing is easy. Writing a publishable book is hard.

Park your ego and listen to your readers. They can be your best friend or your worst enemy. But chances are you'll learn something from them.

Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company.

Hope is sweet.Hope is illumining.Hope is fulfilling.Hope can be everlasting.Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

The heart lives in that space between harmonic regularity and chaotic uncertainty.

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

Oh look at how she listens She says nothing of what she thinks She just goes stumbling through her memories Staring out on to Grey Street

If there are one hundred thousand damned souls for one saved soul, the devil has always the advantage without having given up his son to death.

The blank page gives us the right to dream.

The heart needs not for its heaven much space, nor many stars therein, if only the star of love has arisen.

The denial of ourselves which Christ has so diligently commanded his disciples from the beginning will at last dominate all the desires of our heart.

Once upon a time' lasts forever.

We've somehow allowed ourselves to think it's okay to neglect and abandon our responsibility to ourselves and to our community. Everything cannot be blamed on the system.