Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

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 happiness in our hearts is there for we dare to dream in light when the world tells us to scream in the darkness.

I'm going to live what I believe

Sulfur, when burning, absorbs oxygen gas; the resulting acid is considerably heavier than the sulfur burned; its weight is equal to the sum of weights of the sulfur burned and the oxygen absorbed.

I just didn’t want to be pigeonholed as an 'ethnic comic' or an 'Asian comic.' I just wanted to be on the same playing field as everyone else.

We were so poor; the ultimate luxury in our house at the time was ashtrays without advertisements.

It is not in how one soul approaches another but in how it withdraws that I knowr its affinity and solidarity with the other.

A leader needs enough understanding to fashion an intelligent strategy.

The kiss is a wordless articulation of desire whose object lies in the future, and somewhat to the south.

We cling to the letter because the spirit is so much harder to master.

Liberty is not the unique right of Americans or even Westerners, but is mankind's right.