Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.
Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.
I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes. Because if you are making mistakes, you're doing something.
Sometimes you wake up. Sometimes the fall kills you. And sometimes, when you fall, you fly.
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
What I say is, a town isn't a town without a bookstore. It may call itself a town, but unless it's got a bookstore it knows it's not fooling a soul.
Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it’s always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen) and quite often the blank piece of paper wins.