Writing a novel is a lot like reading one.

We are only as great as our struggles. We only become who we are in the face of them.

The human condition is imperfection. And that's how it's supposed to be.

Be brave with your life, so others will be brave with theirs.

We build our lives in moments, and even the ones we can't remember become the story of who we are.

Don't let anyone convince you that love doesn't matter.

Beauty comes from tenderness.

You don't have to be perfect to be awesome.

What matters most is how you respond to your heartbreaks and your disappointments and your fears. What matters most is who you become in response to them.

The best things about womanhood might possibly even be the conversations. The chatting. The gabbing. The whispering. The hands-on-hips eye-rolling. The yukking-it up.

Our lives disappear, even as we live them.

If you want to know the value of a year, ask the student who was in the final year of his university education, when the lecturers went on strike and the school ended up closing for a year.

When Nietszche says, "A new commandment I give to you, be hard" he is really saying, "A new commandment I give to you, be dead." Sensibility is the definition oflife.

There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum.

I figure that if God actually does exist, he is big enough to understand an honest difference of opinion.

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

Dumb dog. I bought a dog whistle. He won't use it.

Life isn't a dress rehearsal

Nice Kerrick was scarier than Mean Kerrick.

I couldn't get an acting job to save my life when I moved to L.A.

People who love sausage and people who believe in justice should never watch either of them being made