The seeds of death get lost in the mess that God made us.

We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the version of the world they really believed in.

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

Heartbreak is funny to everyone but the heartbroken.

It was the combination of many factors... With most people, suicide is like Russian roulette. Only one chamber has a bullet. With the Lisbon girls, the gun was loaded. A bullet for family abuse. A bullet for genetic predisposition. A bullet for historical malaise. A bullet for inevitable momentum. The other two bullets are impossible to name, but that doesn't mean the chambers were empty.

I think there's a real connection between acting and writing novels because the way I write characters has a little bit to do with the method acting that I was taught in high school and college.