I like how writing can take you off for a jaunt in your head and then set you back down in the chair where you've been all along.

We are very simple human until we learn to use the power of our divine love.

A generation is not defined by the options it has but by the choices it makes.

As a man, if you're married, your happiness is with her happiness. If she's unhappy, everything's messed up. It's a woman's world for sure.

I don't think you can name one diet I haven't done.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself

In the United States, and to a certain extent in Canada, there's very little interest in what happens outside their borders.

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life. . . . If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Things like rebellion and resistance to authority are absolutely as much a part of the human experience as love and cars are, and it's a part that doesn't get covered very much in pop music.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.