To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

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.

The last thing he ever said to me was, 'Just always be waiting for me, and then some night you will hear me crowing.

While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.

Young people drift away from society because, in many cases, they have no hope or goals. So, hope will have to be given to the young.

Don't ye know that ev'ry Soul on Earth feels itself to be an Orphan?

Nothing is constant but change! All existence is a perpetual flux of "being and becoming!" That is the broad lesson of the evolution of the world.

He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait.

Remember the look in the eyes of the Aussies and the Kiwis yesterday - I don't want to see that here.

Sometimes I'll flip through a magazine and do a double take when I see myself in it, it's just crazy!

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The cost of living has gone up another dollar a quart.