pain Quotes

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

In 2008, while the film version of my book 'Choke' was coming to market, my mother was diagnosed with lung cancer. That meant that I had to appear in public to promote a comedy about a son trying to save his dying mother - the plot of Choke - while privately I was caring for my own dying mother. It was torture.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

That saying, about how you always kill the thing you love, well, it works both ways.

I want my characters to really overuse their coping mechanisms to the point where they break down within 300 pages.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

My parents used to fight a lot, and I think they fought a lot at night, and they would turn the television up to hide the sound of their fighting.

People have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love.