I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

It's a cold world when no one will touch you.

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

there is only one true heroism in the world: to see the world as it is, and to love it

They wouldn’t have understood if they found him crying, when he woke and remembered all at once that he had once had a wife and child, so they never found him this way.

Delay is a bitter tonic, but it increases appetite.

When we open ourselves you yourself to me and I myself to you, when we submerge you into me and I into you when we vanish into me you and into you I Then am I me and you are you.

I would encourage you as a screenwriter to trust your story and don't make notes for the actors or don't make notes for the reader.

But sometimes what we call 'memory' and what we call 'imagination' are not so easily distinguished.

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

Strategy is figuring out what not to do.

How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.