“Look inside yourself and you'll find a world of things (a world of your own experiences)worth writing about.”

“I was hooked on writing. I mean, where else can you get paid for sticking your nose into somebody else's business?”

“Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.”

“All I know is that growing up hurts too much. Growing down is what I'd really like to do. Be little enough again so it would be perfectly natural to be protected from the wind and the rain—and the world.”

“Experiencing life through a book can help you learn without all the pain of going through the experiences first hand.”

“Why is it I'm always so quick to believe that people are thinking...believing the worst about me?”

“What do you know about sooner or later? Is a moment only a moment when you're in pain?”