Belief means nothing without actions

Sometimes it's easy to lose faith in people. And sometimes one act of kindness is all it takes to give you hope again.

I want to be with one person in my life. I want to know that the guy I spend the rest of my life with is the first person I share something so intimate and exciting with.

Parents. Honestly. Sometimes they really do think the world revolves around them.

What’s the good of being true to your religion on the outside, if you don’t change what’s on the inside, were it really counts ?

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird girls, then, " I say, raising an eyebrow at him.

Whoever won the war, would revise the history.

Practice begins when you get it right.

it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Photography, alone of the arts, seems perfected to serve the desire humans have for a moment - this very moment - to stay.

A labyrinth, when it is big enough, is just the world.

When a man bores a woman, she complains. When a woman bores a man, he ignores her.

It is deeply unfair to task writers of color with unique responsibilities that we don't assign to all writers.

You want to have expectations. I think it makes you work a little bit harder now, and it makes you want to prove to everyone that it wasn't just a one-year thing.

The founder of every creed from Jesus Christ to Karl Marx, would be appalled to return to earth and see what has been made of that creed, not by its enemies, but by its most devoted adherents.