I like cats as much as the next person, in the right quantity.

For the first time in my life, I felt the pain of missing people I had not yet left.

How wonderful to be read to. To be carried from this world and into another, born away on words.

The heart, once broken, stayed broken.

What is left when there is no love? A rope and rock.

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

City of memories, city of mirrors.

All stories end when they have returned to their beginnings.

What is home but a place where you are truly known?

So, at the last, a story.

Behind every great hatred is a love story.

Your mind has a flood of questions.There is but one teacherWho can answer them.Who is that teacher?Your silence-loving heart.

Our choices are always in accordance to the prevailing value systems of our environment.

How many people are trapped in their everyday habits: part numb, part frightened, part indifferent? To have a better life we must keep choosing how we are living.

Everyone wants to be liked, so of course you want critical acclaim. After that, box office acclaim isn't bad. More than anything I think you have to try and make something you're proud of.

This is true religion, to approve what God approves, to hate what he hates, and to delight in what delights him

I still think that, hopefully, you're not ahead of the jokes, and I think that has value. There is a punchline and it's pointed - and, again, whether you think it's funny or not, that's subjective.

Appropriation was the language of my generation in many ways. It came out of Duchamp, Warhol, Johns, Lichtenstein.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.

Everyone could face something that hurts him. But I don't expect that I will be hurt

If what you know and what you love are the same thing, that's great. But if not, write what you love. I love history, secrets, conspiracies, action, adventure, international settings.