..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

This time, I wanted to enjoy the passion that burned between us until we were both about to combust.

Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.

I'm in favor of sexual encounters.

Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead.

Always work hard on something uncomfortably exciting!

The artist is a spectator, indifferent or impassioned, at the birth of his work, and observes the phases of its development.

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings.

I don't really see science fiction as fiction. I can imagine colonies on Mars and everything.

If the masses can love without knowing why, they also hate without much foundation.