For me, that emotional payoff is what it’s all about. I want you to laugh or cry when you read a story...or do both at the same time. I want your heart, in other words. If you want to learn something, go to school.

I watched Titanic when I got back home from the hospital, and cried. I knew that my IQ had been damaged.

The crazy people of the world...shouldn't get to win. If God won't make it better after they do have their shitty little victories, then ordinary people have to. They have to try, at least.

I dreamed of you. I dreamed you were wandering in the dark, and so was I. We found each other. We found each other in the dark.

I get inspiration, a lot of times, from very commonplace things that just strike a chord and develop themselves in the subconscious.

You don't always talk with your mouth. Sometimes what you say with your mouth hardly matters at all. You have to signify

All I ask is that you do as well as you can, and remember that, while to write adverbs is human, to write he said or she said is divine.