The only thing I know for sure is how much I do not know.

The desire to write well can never be fulfilled without hard work.

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

I would not cry. I do not cry. How bitter do you risk becoming by swallowing too many tears?

The answer to the mystery of existence is the love you shared sometimes so imperfectly, and when the loss wakes you to the deeper beauty of it, to the sanctity of it, you can't get off your knees for a long time, you're driven to your knees not by the weight of the loss but by gratitude for what preceded the loss.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.