The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail at it, you know that it's worth doing.

Find what causes a commotion in your heart. Find a way to write about that

I know you can dream your way through an otherwise fine life, and never wake up, which is what I almost did.

Some idiotic things are well worth doing.

Your life doesn't mean what you have or what you get. Its what your'e willing to give up.

If you lose all hope, you can always find it again.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.

Our ex-wifes always harbour secrets about us that make them irresistable. Until, of course, we remember who we are and what we did and why we are not married anymore.

Some people want to be bank presidents. Other people want to rob banks.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

What is important is not what you hear said, it's what you observe.

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there were few greater losers in the revolution than the French church and especially the Jesuits.

The problem is that religion tends to give people bad reasons to be good.

My goal is to win the next game one possession at a time. That's it. I don't have any other goals

If the pace and the push, the noise and the crowds are getting to you, it's time to stop the nonsense and find a place of solace to refresh your spirit

We all need a firm sense of identity.

We humans can look deep into future and predict what will happen, but then turn around and do nothing about it.

Pray for great things, expect great things, work for great things, but above all pray.

there are two kinds of people in this world : those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.