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

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.

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.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

Never worry if you’re excluded from the circle, sometimes it’s full of squares.

If the devil succeeds in separating you and isolating you from other Christians, then he can destroy you

it is a heartBreaking sound, Amir Jan, the Wailing of a mother. I pray to Allah you Never hear it.

Praying God’s solutions from the Word releases life, but praying negatively and focusing on your problems only energizes and strengthens them.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Everybody wants to get enlightened but nobody wants to change.

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

If I want to die, what am I saving myself for?

As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer

More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world.