You don't want to depend on an editor. If you want to regret something for the rest of your life, you want to make sure you're responsible for it.

That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

When rewriting, move quickly. It's a little like cutting your own hair.

Everybody's after a new morning. What do we have to run up and salute tomorrow?

Life is a means of extracting fiction.

I've always remembered. This fellow said to me - if you think someones'doing you wrong, it's not for you to judge. Kill them first and then God can do the judging.

It's all about letting the story take over.

If you couldn't tell the difference between what hurt and what didn't, you had no business being alive. You can't have any good times if you can't tell.

The desires of the heart...are as crooked as a corkscrew.

If you haven't fought for your life for something you want, you don't know what's life all about.

One does not consider style, because style is.

He who challenges the God in his dying bed is indisputably the most courageous man, but not the cleverest one!

It's always seemed to me that flirtation is a man's device for avoiding responsibility. He can say whatever he wants and knows he won't be taken seriously.

I have acted foolishly, father forgive me.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

I thought in this country, the best social program was a job. Yet minimum wage jobs arent paying enough to keep families out of poverty

Don't dwell on the problem; concentrate on the solution.

For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.

What you're going to be asked to do is bigger than what you think you can do. It's always bigger than what you think you can handle, but you're never going to be given something you can't handle.

Never give up on your child. But also, you have to love your child.