“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?”

In order to win, you must expect to win.

If you will practice being fictional for a while, you will understand that fictional characters are sometimes more real than people with bodies and heartbeats.

Kindle Singles is publishing on skates. It prints like lightning; our book meets readers in hours.

Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it.

I’ve spent so many years waiting for publishers to consider whether they wanted to print a book of mine, making contracts, taking months to fit it into the Fall list or the Spring list, fitting it into an advertising plan.

Bad things are not the worst things that can happen to us. Nothing is the worst thing that can happen to us!

True love stories never have endings.

Get this in mind early: We never grow up.

I want to be very close to someone I respect and admire and have somebody who feels the same way about me.

If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.

You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. You may have to work for it, however.

Until you make room in your life for someone as important to you as yourself, you will always be searching and lost.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

Learning is finding out what you already know.

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.

The simplest things are often the truest.

To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

To discover and know has always been a deep tendency of our nature. Can we not recognize it already in caveman?

He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

The real is not only what can be reproduced, but that which is always already reproduced. The hyper real.

I feel like whatever is meant is meant. I feel like this is already written.

My wife is always trying to get rid of me. The other day she told me to put the garbage out. I said to her I already did. She told me to go and keep an eye on it.