Life would be grand if it weren't for the people.

You cannot let your parents anywhere near your real humiliations.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Always remember that when a man goes out of the room, he leaves everything in it behind. When a woman goes out she carries everything that happened in the room along with her.

I would really hope this would make people see the short story as an important art, not just something you played around with until you got a novel.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

In your life there are a few places, or maybe only the one place, where something happened, and then there are all the other places.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

My head was a magpie's nest lined with such bright scraps of information.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick Two.

Basketball Rule #4If you missenough of life'sfree throwsyou will payin the end.

Ever since I was old enough to remember my own actions, I realized that when I am passionate about something, I must do it 130%, regardless of what other passions I may already be pursuing.

Write while the heat is in you.

Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

By taking the time to live life in the slow lane, we quickly experience a deeper, more profound experience of contentment.

Before my accident I was a little too... selfish and self-absorbed and for me, to now be at the place where I can kinda give back and inspire people. I'm blessed. I'm really blessed.

Your dream has to be bigger than your fear.

We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.