I'm a history person, and I love the groundedness of that, of being able to go, "Yes! People acted like that."

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.

We're naturally afraid of a spider - these are memories that are being chemically passed down through your DNA.

I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

Your truth really can't be twisted. It is what it is. That doesn't mean that a person can't develop and change and reinterpret their life.

I don't think I've ever done anything that's completely the same, yet.

I would never say that I'm not going to do something. I like not being limited.

I'll tell you what I was most surprised to discover about my writing process, and that is that I never know what I'm doing.

I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.

I think Scotland is probably my spiritual home and I love it there very, very much.

I would not give up a lot of what I know about my heritage. I would not give up knowing where I came from, the good parts and the bad parts.

You will always end up doing what is better for you.

Winning is a habit. Unfortunately so is losing.

You are significantly more likely to die in a car accident, especially if you fail to wear a seat belt, than to be attacked by ISIS. Wear your seat belt

One more sign of how perfect Damen is—he keeps a pair of trunks in his car.

Liberation movements - prizing ends over means - are not always particular about their friends or scrupulous about their transactions.

I have seen men march to the wars, and then I have watched their homeward tread, and they brought back bodies of living men, But their eyes were cold and dead.

Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.

I need to run every day. If I don't I feel cheated.

I'm tired of reading about history, I want to make it.

My goal is that LOVE should cover the world.