Frankly I'm fairly boring or fairly busy. Between writing and family, I have little time for anything else.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

The sacred lamp burns to give light

A true master will not deceive an able disciple. You are hampered by the limits you set and no limit can be set on skill.

I always get lost in the library, ' he said, 'no matter how many times I go. In fact, I think I get lost there more, the more that I go. Like it's getting to know me and revealing new passages.

The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

Each person's energy matters.

I believe in a democracy and we live in a democracy. We have a titular head of state as the monarch but without political power.

I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility.

I'm often accused of saying some pretty rotten things about my mother-in-law. But quite honestly, she's only got one major fault - it's called breathing.

Let us save the tomorrows for work.

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.