Writer’s block is my unconscious mind telling me that something I’ve just written is either unbelievable or unimportant to me, and I solve it by going back and reinventing some part of what I’ve already written so that when I write it again, it is believable and interesting to me. Then I can go on. Writer’s block is never solved by forcing oneself to “write through it,” because you haven’t solved the problem that caused your unconscious mind to rebel against the story, so it still won’t work – for you or for the reader.

Good people aren't good because they never cause harm to others. They're good because they treat others the best way they know how, with the understanding that they have.

This is how humans are: We question all our beliefs, except for the ones that we really believe in, and those we never think to question.

There's always hope... even when there isn't faith. And sometimes, without hope or faith, there must be charity.

Love is finding that the things you like best about yourself are not in you at all, but in the person who completes you

Never mind that the story had turned out to be lies and foolishness—there was always folks stupid enough to say, Where there's smoke there's fire, when the saying should have been, Where there's scandalous lies there's always malicious believers and spreaders-around, regardless of evidence.

No human being, when you understand his desires, is worthless. No one's life is nothing. Even the most evil of men and women, if you understand their hearts, had some generous act that redeems them, at least a little, from their sins.