It ain't how long you know somebody that means anything. It's what that person mean to you in your heart.

Books, and especially fiction, do not proceed from ideas. They are born from feelings

Faith is not something that one has; faith is something that one practices at the very moment in your life when you really don't believe anything, and you're in the worst kind of despair.

The young accept the extraordinary as normal because they do not compare their lives with those of others when everyone is like them.

Often, the human animal dresses terror in rage, and expresses both in a way unlike either.

We remember with our emotions. The things that were important in our emotional life, that's what we remember.

I write because the lives of all of us are stories. If enough of those stories are told, then perhaps we will begin to see that our lives are the same story. The differences are merely in the details.