Readers are often fans of Authors, but I, myself, am a fan of readers. They are the ones who breathe life into the pages that we give birth to, after all.

I let ya in—into my life...my death...my heart." He reached up like he was going to touch my face. "And now I don't know how to get ya out.

I became a writer so that the voices inside my head would become an acceptable occurrence.

I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.

Equality...is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.

People say friends don't destroy one another. What do they know about friends?

Kindness is our religion.

I guess you'd say, including the - what I just spoke about, the learning that liberalism isn't quite as liberal as it pretends to be.

The most important thing is to keep creating and following my inklings as they come into being and acting on them.

If all my friends jumped off a bridge, I wouldn't jump with them. I'd be at the bottom, hoping to catch them.

While you're doing it, you don't really know what you're doing.