...pain reaches a certain point and does not get worse but remains in all its intensity and you can survive it.

I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

It's amazing that the heart makes no noise when it cracks.

Everybody sins, Francis. The terrible thing is that we love our sins. We love the thing that makes us evil.

And he did see--that life was rotten, that there were no heroes, really, and that you couldn't trust anybody, not even yourself.

Why did the wise guys always accuse other people of being wise guys?

They don't actually want you to do your own thing, not unless it's their thing too.

I have lived a thousand lives lost within the pages of a book.

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Didn't flowers grow out of dirt?

Affection is one of the most neglected words in the English language, that people throw the word love around like confetti when they mean affection.

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

Everything that informs us of something useful that we didn't already know is a potential signal. If it matters and deserves a response, its potential is actualized.

Sports create a bond between comtemporaries that lasts a lifetime. It also gives your life structure, discipline and a genuine, sincere, pure fulfillment that few other areas of endeavor provide.

I would go to the deeps a hundred times a cheer a downcast spirit.

Love is not a passive state. It is an active force. It is the force of the soul.

Naxal flag will soon fly in delhi

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Womens value has been under-recognized for far too long.

My studio is right on the ocean, and the sun rises right in my eyes every morning, and the energy of the sea is right there.

I don't want to become known as just a body.