There is no such things as God's word on earth. Or if there is it is not to be found in books. -Then where is it to be found?- In love. In the laughter of children. In a gift given. In a life saved. In the quiet of morning. In the dead of night. In the sound of the ocean, or the sound of a car. It can be found in anything, anywhere. It is the fabric of our lives, our feelings, the people we live with, things we know to be real.

I'm tired of making people sad and I'm tired of disappointing them and I'm tired of seeing them break. I have seen this too many times. He will be the last.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

It started when she passed me a note in English class. The note said you don't seem as awful as I hear you are. I passed one back that read: beware I am as awful as people say and worse. She laughed and I had a friend. She didn't become my Ally and I didn't ask her to or want her to but she became my friend and that was more than anyone else was willing to do.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.