Extraordinary beauty can be a curse to the one who possesses it. one pays a dear price for fame and fortune

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

Don't ever be afraid to live. Because though dying is easy when compared to living

If you loved people, you might hurt them, dissapoint them, anger them, but you never, ever, dishonored them.

In order to win everything, a woman must know to lose.

What do you want? What are you willing to give up to get it? Writing requires you make sacrifices. Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

Ah, but being in love made you mean and crazy. Love made you act like a fool even when you knew you were acting like a fool and couldn't help yourself from acting like a fool.

Life was precious. Life was fragile. Here one moment, gone the next. Every second should be milked for all it's worth because you never know when the bottom was going to drop out.

Just being yourself is the easiest thing you can do. It doesn't take much effort.

The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see the wild an reckless exuberance of our production, and waste seems to be the index.

...discussion is also a most excellent means to avoid -decision-

I ball all through the winter and I stunt all through the summer.

I never plan my novels because if I know what is going to happen, it bores me rigid. I let the story tell itself.

When I walk off the field exhausted, drenched in sweat, knowing I pushed myself to the physical, mental, and emotional limits, there is no better feeling.

A Pakistan that falls apart, becomes a failed state, would be of extraordinary danger to Afghanistan and to America.

Let us agree that we are marrying so we can go on quarrelling in the greatest possible comfort and convenience.

We are amphibious creatures, weaponed for two elements, having two sets of faculties, the particular and the catholic.

I would never describe a cloud as 'fluffy'—in Chinese or in English.