I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited.

Dating someone on the opposite end of the happy spectrum teaches you an incredible amount of patience.

There is an irreplaceable ally. It's called the United States of America.

No one fights with more principle and passion than Michael Gove.

I think it's important to be extremely proud of one's origins, especially when you are a foreign actress with ethnic features.

Sometimes before people know what they're saying, they already love the language.

A congressman is a pig. The only way to get his snout from the trough is to rap it sharply with a stick.

Yeah I did put my clothes on, but my clothes took off... Could it be my clothes are putting me on??

I'd hate to see any descendants of mine fall into the category of what I'd call 'idle rich' - a group I've never had much use for.

Sunnybrook Farm is now a parking lot; the petticoats are in the garbage can, where they belong in the modern world; and I detest censorship.