Boredom is a great motivator.

I've learned that every working mom is a superwoman.

I still love the people I’ve loved, even if I cross the street to avoid them.

Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence.

Change is usually preceded by some kind of drift.

It is better to have a relationship with someone who cheats on you than with someone who does not flush the toilet.

It's taken me a long time to learn to accept the risks and just be willing to try it over and over again.

I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Simply put, here amid the kingdoms of this world we have no continuing city. That’s why we dare not become attached to the passing values of any human culture.

It is precisely by binding things together that traditional visions perpetuate themselves and the prejudgments contained within them

There is no substitute for hard work, 23 or 24 hours a day. And there is no substitute for patience and acceptance.

When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

I don't get into heavy political numbers because I don't find them lyrical.

At one point I intended to write precursor and sequel novels, about the establishment of the Web and its next evolution, but I am very unlikely to now; they would take place in a different universe.

We save the world by being alive ourselves.

And even if somebody else has it much worse, that doesn't really change the fact that you have what you have. Good and bad.

Even when you're feeling dejected, don't avoid the problem, confront it. That way you'll eventually realize that your dreams are in fact attainable.