Take the risk and do whatever you can do and try not to get caught. If you do get caught, do it again.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

When something is staring you in the face in your life and you see it with your own two eyes and feel it within your heart only a fool doesn't believe it to be true.

The afternoon and the early evening slide by in a lidded daze where the ability to think in any identifiable way disappears and where every moment seems to be an eternity.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

You know, everything's a sort of lie, and then you die.

Trust Him in the Deep Waters! ~Jessica R. Patch author of Deep Waters.

I consider chess an art, and accept all those responsibilities which art places upon its devotees.

Van Gogh was asked how he created such beautiful paintings. He said I dream my paintings and then I paint my dreams.

[S]cience has itself become a kind of religion.

You always come back to Duke Ellington - he's kind of like the thread that holds everything together from the big band descending to lots of jazz, actually.

It's just hard when you're someone who's like hurting a lot of people or deceiving people who trust you, not to bring some of that home with you or inside of you.

If a cat sits on a hot stove once, it will never sit on a cold one either.

Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.

Most companies are very quick to hire and slow to fire, when really it should be the other way around.