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She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

Faith is the fool's excuse.

I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

The future is unwritten. What will be will be.

I always wanted to be the outlaw. And that's to a certain extent how I've lived.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

Trauma is survivable, but often not much more. It kills you while allowing you to still live.

I hadn't learned yet that everybody's locked up some way or other. That's how life is we're all imprisoned by something.

If you want to be whole, you must first be partial.

To say that you can't see echoes of the past in what I do would be absurd. Everything that has preceded me has affected me.

But we are what we are, and humans will always hate.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

My wife says I'm only comfortable when there's a fight. And it's true. The thing that motivates me is struggle.

You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

As we stand to leave, I look across the dining hall and through the glass at Lilly. She is smiling at me and the smile hurts.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

Be smart, be strong, be proud, live honorably and with dignity, and just hold on.

Part of me still loves. More of me doesn't.

I'm just going to write my books and do my work and release it. Let the world decide what it is, and if it's any good or not.

Because I'll never be any better. I'll never be any more normal and I'll never make the pain go away. Never ever ever.

Most books aren't pure nonfiction or fiction.

To write a damn good thriller, you need a killer attitude.

I know people might think I'm strong or tough, but I'm really not. I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing.

Stay.
Fight.
Live.
Take it.
Cry.
Cry.
Cry.

I think men who can cry are strong men

There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

Words can't say this. The one word love means too little for what it is. It means everything and that is still not enough.

Laughing and Love. They are both drugs.

Dreams can come true there [Los Angeles]in ways impossible anywhere else, and they can get destroyed as well.

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

Thank you Lilly, Leonard, MIles, I love you and I thank you

Practice not wanting, desiring, judging, doing, fighting, knowing. Practice just being. Everything will fall into place.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

They say live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes

She feels and she cries. It is to be admired.

Learn to deal with that. It's the way of the world. You fight and struggle and work your ass off and then you die. Deal with that.

I can run fast when I want to run fast, and I've always been good at destroying things.

If you care about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner.

Hate me if you must, but know that I will never hate you.

Be patient and wait. Your mud will settle. Your water will be clear.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

My body is falling apart and my mind fell apart a long time ago.

Live and let live, do not judge, take life as it comes and deal with it, everything will be okay.

Sometimes skulls are thick. Sometimes hearts are vacant. Sometimes words don't work.

And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

[...]that's how it works most of the time; we say the things that matter to people when it's already too late.

I don't care what people come at me with. People have come at me with everything you could imagine. I could care less about that.

Be bold. But not bold, be fucking bold.

If you can accept the truth and live with it your heart will be at peace.

Be content with what you have and take joy in the way things are. When you realize you have all you need, the World belongs to you.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

I am happy and able because I allow myself to be happy.

There is, though, nothing that prepares us for the worst things in our life. There is nothing you can do to stop the shock, or buffer the pain.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep

Be strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don't think you can, hold on.

I've never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

Why are you scared, John?'
'Because I know I'm not better.'
'Why do you think that?'
'Because I know it in my heart.

1954. Smog prevents airplanes from landing and ships from docking for three days.

To live with angels and chase their dreams.

I choose to be the person that i want to be

What is the meaning of life?Whatever you want it to be.

Even a second of freedom is worth more than a lifetime of bondage.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed ...

There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.

Let things be, let yourself be, let everything be and accept it as it is. Nothing more. Nothing less.

Lying became part of my life. I lied if I needed to lie to get something or get out of something

I'm pretty good at compartmentalizing things and not allowing things outside of myself to distract me or bother me or affect me in any way.

The promise of eternal life makes people forsake the life they're given.

Are we biology or God or something higher? I know my heart beats and I listen to it. The beat is biology, but what is the song?

If you care about what others think of you, then you will always be their slave.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

You only live once, buy Picassos whenever possible.

For the worst things of our lives, it is sometimes the best way, to never speak of them again.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.

I love the process of being alone in a room.

It's been great getting better with you.

Love only brought me lonliness and horror.

he sits and waits and hopes that at some

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing.

A miracle is changing someone's life. Freeing them from whatever bonds them. Giving them the gift of being able to live the way they dream of living.

I've been alone my whole life, I can't do it anymore.

Love is love. It doesn't matter how or who you love. I don't believe the messiah would condemn gay men and women.

You can tell yourself anything you want, but until you believe what you're telling yourself, you're wasting words.

I think as an artist or a writer it's OK to want to control your own work.

Love and laughter and fucking make one's life better. Worship is just the passing of time.

What's crazy is living your life according to some book written by someone who couldn't imagine what your life would be like.

He pulled out turned west and started driving towards the glow it was thousands of miles away, he started driving towards the glow.

No judgment, no condescension. Just hope.

I just think it's a great world to tell stories in, to tell cool stories: money, sex, fame, and scandal. Those are great subject matters to work with.

The greatest rules of dramatic writing are conflict, conflict, conflict.

When I started writing 'A Million Little Pieces,' I felt like it was the right story with the style I had been looking for, and I just kept going.

I turn and I slowly walk away and I don't look back. It has always been a fault of mine, but it is the way I am. I never look back. Never.

I hope nobody took the Razzle Dazzle Rose.

We know have the power of God in many ways: the atomic bomb, the ability to create life in a test tube, cloning, artificial intelligence.

Sometimes I really want to believe in God. I really admire, in a lot of ways, people who have faith. I think it must be a beautiful thing to believe.

People call me all sorts of things. I don't even care what they call me.