The more fiction you read and write, the more you'll find your paragraphs forming on their own.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment, the capacity to believe, or at some point in your life, when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself, you simply make an agreement.

A life without love is like a tree without fruit.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There's no way around these two things that I'm aware of, no shortcut.

If you liked being a teenager, there's something really wrong with you.

Now I think all of us were born with a hole in our hearts, and we go around looking for the person who can fill it. You... you fill me up.

I always like to see enlightened parents like that; it gives me hope for the future.