"What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life."

"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God."

"I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it."

"Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized."

"I'm most happy when I am writing at night, because I need space and time to write."

"I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way."

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils, for time is the greatest innovator."

"Now, having had this experience, I can't say really what they were looking for. I don't know their minds. But every time I see a reality show, it seems that the most entertaining parts on other reality shows are when they make their guests look foolish."