When all you have is the memory of a thing, all you can think about is how the thing is gone.

But such was the way with people – they loved the things that made them miserable.

He’s looking for people he can be himself around. Aren’t we all?

She’d decided that about eighty percent of what you believe about yourself when you’re twenty turns out to be wrong. The problem is you don’t know what your small true part is until much later.

What a treacherous thing a body was, how it so blatantly acted out the mind’s secrets.

It was true. Heard it on Cronkite.

A dormitory was a hopeless idea. Whoever thought of encasing two hundred girls in a concrete box?

The things we love the most are the most disfiguring. Such is our greed for them.

It’s the great flaw of journalism. The more something happens, the less newsworthy it is.

Timothy McVeigh was a coward. Violence is the stupid way out. It'll discredit any real legitmate movement.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die.

We need silence to be able to touch souls.

You only get one life so you might as well make it a happy one, and that's why I tend to just jump into things. I'm sort of a fearless idiot that way.

If civilians are killed in an attack on a military installation, it is certainly regrettable, but I will not morally blame the I.R.A. for it.

When asked to give advice, I do of course give it, because I give whatever I am asked to give.

Being our Self is the wisest philosophy, the bravest action, the kindest consideration and the greatest act of healing imaginable.

I started lying about my age when I was 18 to be older. When I turned 21, I started lying that I was 18. It's a weakness in me.

The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.