A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Life's battle don't always go to the strongest or the fastest, but sooner or later the man who wins is the man who thinks he can .

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me.

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

I love dark chocolate - I could eat it 'til I puke.

Even modern medical researchers have come to the conclusion that peace of mind is vital for good health.

Enlightenment is the complete awareness of life without mental modifications.

Don't get mad. Get everything. - (on divorce).

This is our true tie," he whispered, his breath falling hotly onto my lips. "You're meant for me, and I will have you.

Beware the man with one gun. He can probably use it.

Perhaps the most eloquent of the hard virtues is courage, the disposition to encounter adversity head-on and strive to overcome it.