When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

There are people out there who will not read books, but somehow they'll read my books.

You realize that our mistrust of the future makes it hard to give up the past.

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Parents are like God because you wanna know they're out there, and you want them to think well of you, but you really only call when you need something.

I know so many writers who are a hundred times better than me and have longer, greater ideas than mine, but they gave up; they stopped. The biggest talent you can have is determination.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.