Occupation: Novelist Birth: August 16, 1957
Sometimes it has to feel worse before it feels better..
He says you don't often find angels in places like happy homes and rich people's backyard parties. He says that angels flock to places like hospitals….
You're in my personal space, so get out of it..
Complete happiness can look so much like complete terror that it's hard to tell them apart..
Nobody stopped believing that other people were more guilty than they were. Why do people have so much trouble seeing their own faults but such an ea….
Things don't have to be sane when they're normal..
Everyone who doesn't want to believe in supernormal powers says the people who experience them are psycho. What the hell kind of a world is this if a….
It's fine to be insane as long as you keep it to yourself..
People can love their lies, tell their lies, believe their own lies until hell pays a visit..
If a life goes down the toilet, it comes out in a river and meets the sea..
You can never see a plant grow, but they do..
People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are..
If you can understand human behavior, it can’t hurt you nearly as much..
There are times in life to grow, and there are times in life to shine. One can't grow and shine at the same time; it just doesn't work that way. Now ….
People will do and think whatever it is they have to in order to survive..
Don't you give me that postmodern bullshit. There is truth, There is a truth. And what you want, or you feel, or you need, isn't going to change the ….
Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?.
You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues..
My one challenge with the support group that I'd become involved with on campus is that the people seem to spend as much time talking about their ill….
But not hurting people and knowing how to get along with people, ... they're different..
You can almost believe what you know is not true when you really have to..