“But sometimes, it’s harder to admit to ourselves we want love in our lives than it is to keep living without it.”

You’re every single fantasy I’ve ever had.

Looking for the good in people is never stupid.

The best self promotion is your next book. And the book after that and after that.

I’ve always wondered why love has to be so full of conflict and strife. Why can’t love be simple? Why can’t it just be as pure as two people who realize that they can’t live as well, or as happily, apart as they can together?

Unrequited love made right is the ultimate, isn’t it?

Some things are just perfect, even when they don’t make any sense

I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn’t get far enough in any of those things.

There is nothing harder to estimate than a writer’s time, nothing harder to keep track of. There are moments—moments of sustained creation—when his time is fairly valuable; and there are hours and hours when a writer’s time isn’t worth the paper he is not writing anything on.

I’ve learned that it’s harder to try to put on this goody two-shoes persona when that’s not me.

It is no harder for anyone to test this than it is for me to say it is false, since no one is prevented from counting teeth.

When a leader encourages the culture of impunity, the society is lost and it makes the work harder for the rest of us.

I wanted to take up guitar because playing piano is a little harder. Carrying a keyboard around is harder, and finding a real piano is much harder, and I wanted to play live more, so I figured a guitar would be easier to carry around.

It’s a short letter – all she said was, ‘Hey, since it’s harder for you to go out these days without getting photographed, here $10 for a pizza.’ I was like, ‘Aww, she sent me money for a pizza so I could eat at home!’

But I work harder now because I have so much more exposure. And actually the harder you work as a writer, the better you get at it. It’s like anything else. It’s a muscle you have to exercise. I write more now than ever.