Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps fewer options.

Let's just say that global warming deniers are now on a par with Holocaust deniers.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference.

Most people do not consider dawn to be an attractive experience - unless they are still up.

Maybe this year, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives not looking for flaws, but looking for potential.

The central struggle of parenthood is to let our hopes for our children outweigh our fears.

I regard this novel as a work without redeeming social value, unless it can be recycled as a cardboard box.

What he labels sexual, she labels harassment.

Today, much of journalism and politics are in a kind of collusion to oversimplify and personalize issues. No room for ambivalence. Plenty of room for the personal attack.

Ultimately, time is all you have and the idea isn't to save it, but to savour it.

Our 'mistakes' become our crucial parts, sometimes our best parts, of the lives we have made.

Cause sometimes what makes you two is shadow and you.

Exterminate all the brutes!

We are certain God's will is that all men share in the good things this earth produces.

I write compulsively. I've got so many ideas, and I love to do it so much, I can't not do it. I write the way some people do drugs.

Plenty of people are raised Catholic and then aren't Catholic anymore, like any religion.

Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality

Horror is a reaction; it's not a genre. Somebody's life would have to be in danger for it [story] to be a horror story.

I was playing violin for a long time, about 6 years. It takes a while. You need very patient people in your house when you have a violin.

They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this.' Never happens.

When I was told my team was lucky to win, I replied: "the more we practice, the luckier we get."