Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

It didn't feel difficult at the time because I was so charged up about both books. Afterward, however, I was pretty tired. In a good way, like after a great workout.