Grief is a healthy emotion, and it's healthy to embrace it. By accepting loss, we clarify our values and the meaning of our lives.

If I drive myself to the brink of my ability, then I don't get stale or bored.

Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

Even in the darkest moments, light exists if you have the faith to see it. Fear is a poison produced by the mind, and courage is the antidote stored always in the soul. In misfortune lies the seed of future triumph.

Where there's cake, there's hope. And there's always cake.

Your mind always does worse things than people can show in a movie.