Only the one that hurts you can make you feel better. Only the one that inflicts pain can take it away
In the ’70s it was skateboards, in the ’80s it was drugs, in the ’90s it was art, and now it’s my family.
Solicitude for material things distracts the soul and divides it. The devil seizes the divided soul and drags it to hell.
I did not give Xanax or anything else to my child.
If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.
Join the Republican party if you cannot abide Democrats. You will probably loathe Republicans just as much, but there are fewer of them.
When I do think, ‘Man a f—cking motel room with a couple of thousand dollars worth of narcotics would do me right,’ I just look over at my dog and remember that Buster’s never seen me high.
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
Motivation will almost always beat mere talent.
I tend not to think about audience when I'm writing. Many people who read "The Giver" now have their own kids who are reading it. Even from the beginning, the book attracted an audience beyond a child audience.
Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.