The actual writing time is a lot shorter than the thinking time. I don't do too many notes. I keep it mostly in my head. I usually start writing a new book around January, and it's due October 1.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

When stuck in middle of a choice, we always do what we must. Do things we think is right. We are actually never get stuck. We just love to feel stuck.

The old longing i had thought dead, rose in me like a flame

People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.

People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight.

Touring is everything. Without touring, you're just another artist on the internet trying to get your music out.

Everything about a movie is manipulation.

You have to know your triggers for stress and then have rituals for combating them.

A monster which devours everything - that is familiarity.

Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

Some things I never learned to like. I didn't like to kiss babies, though I didn't mind kissing their mothers.