Women aren't very bright," Rip says. "Studies have been done..

I've never written an autobiographical novel in my life. I've never touched upon my life. I've never written a single scene that I can say took place..

A great numb feeling washes over me as I let go of the past and look forward to the future. Pretend to be a vampire. I don't really need to pretend, ….

And though the coldness I have always felt leaves me, the numbness doesn't and probably never will. this relationship will probably lead to nothing..….

But this road doesn't go anywhere,” I told him. “That doesn't matter.” “What does?” I asked, after a little while. “Just that we're on it, dude,” he ….

He was simply someone who floated through our lives and didn't seem to care how flatly he perceived everyone or that he'd shared our secret failures ….

I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says ….

You learn to move on without the people you love..

How could she ever understand that there isn't any way could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to?.

Not being able to find meaning can be just as powerful as finding meaning..

I had all the characteristics of a human being—flesh, blood, skin, hair—but my depersonalization was so intense, had gone so deep, that my normal abi….

I think we've all lost some kind of feeling..

I do not feel I have a legacy to protect..

I'm not a big believer in disciplined writers. What does discipline mean? The writer who forces himself to sit down and write for seven hours every d….

It's because you're always fighting sentiment. You're fighting sentimentality all of the time because being a mother alerts you in such a primal way..

Completely committed to adapting 'Fifty Shades of Grey'. This is not a joke. Christian Grey and Ana: potentially great cinematic characters..

I don't know why I write what I write..

Eventually everyone has to hit the dark side of life - Someone doesn't like you, someone doesn't like your work, someone doesn't love you back... peo….

You don't market-research a novel; you really are writing it for yourself. It's a hobby, in many ways. The problem becomes what you do when you're co….

People are afraid to merge..

I think basically most men are misogynistic..