I think that we're all mentally ill. Those of us outside the asylums only hide it a little better - and maybe not all that much better after all.

And then the world exploded.

‎If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot…reading is the creative center of a writer’s life…you cannot hope to sweep someone else away by the force of your writing until it has been done to you.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

I have two amazing things in my life: I'm pain-free and I'm debt-free.

They had become a fixed star in the shifting firmament of the high school's relationships, the acknowledged Romeo and Juliet. And she knew with sudden hatefulness that there was one couple like them in every white suburban high school in America.

We lie best when we lie to ourselves.