Aging has brought me greater liberty in fiction. When I was young I was harder on myself. I wrote with an idea of absolute seriousness.

Friendship is a form of love. In fact, you don't know how it starts or why. It is subject to the caprices of time. It can grow or die without a reason. It can last a lifetime.

Above all else she mustn't think that using her body will help her attain her goal. Men use women who play seductively, and then they look down on them.

I dream of continuing to dream.

The waves have the habit of going forward and then flowing back.

The future is created through memory.

One writes what one lives, even if not in a literal way. Someone who has gone through an unhappy love tends to describe unhappy loves, even if they have nothing to do with their own.

A winter without snow seems depressing, lacking.

Falling in love with a story is like falling in love with a person. It tends to occupy your life, your thoughts. You can't do anything else for a long time.

I don't always understand my characters. I write to understand them better.

To leave a book is like leaving the better part of oneself.

Piers is always going on about how he hated Stowe. As if that solves everything, as if to hate something means it can't have affected you.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

There are only two things wrong with C++: The initial concept and the implementation.

I do not play football, I score goals.

I was always a self-conscious person.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

The United States and India can work together.

As far as inspiration goes, I'm constantly inspired by traveling, symbols, magic and different cultural traditions around the world.

Half the people you know are below average.

Miserable people focus on what they hate about their life. Happy people focus on what they love about their life.