The only infallible truth of our lives is that everything we love in life will be taken from us.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

Suffering is only suffering if it’s done in silence, in solitude. Pain experienced in public, in view of loving millions, was no longer pain. It was communion.

We see the beauty within and cannot say no.

I don't mean to beat a made-in-America drum, but I would be lying if I said it doesn't feel somehow right to be printing books in the U.S.

We have no choice. We need the communion of souls and only here are they awake.

Loneliness is just a thing that I'm not personally interested in. So far, it hasn't been on my docket of things to write about.