Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.

I have a secret goal with my editor - he has asthma and uses his inhaler, and after I send him a new manuscript, I'll have his assistant phone me and tell me how many times he had to get his inhaler out while reading a draft. It's my secret laugh meter.

A little old lady sitting at the front of the bus can do nothing to change civil rights.

I'm not so much a good friend as I'm the savior who wants you to worship him forever.

By the time you're thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

You gain power by pretending to be weak. By contrast, you make people feel strong. You save people by letting them save you.