Can you trust me, he said. Not will you. Can you. Can I trust him? What do I have to lose?

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

Do not try to compensate people for the love they show you. Rather, replicate the love.

The economic base of a nation, is the foundation of the it's secrets.

Out of the scabbard of the night By God's hand drawn Flashes his shining sword of light And lo the dawn!

I saw the lovely arch Of rainbow span the sky, The gold sun burning As the rain swept by.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

Sometimes I think everyone is just pretending to be brave, and none of us really are. Maybe pretending is how you get brave, I don't know.

The purpose of the first draft is not to get it right, but to get it written.

Great actions speak great minds.

One of the other things I think that I've been able to do in my life, is to listen well

Political stability was at most a factor in assessing developing countries or Russia. It is now also an issue in Western democracies.