Be kind to others before you take care of yourself; make whoever you're with feel like they matter.

People ask all the time how I'm doing, but the truth is, they don't really want to know.

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall.

You didn't get past something like that, you go through it -- and for that reason alone, I understood more about her than she ever would have guessed.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

I told myself that if I didn't care, this wouldn't have hurt so much - surely that proved I was alive and human and all those touchy-feely things, for once and for all. But that wasn't a relief, not when I felt like a skyscraper with dynamite on every floor.

In books, you always know what's coming next. There are no surprises.