I'm not sure if you're the person for me any more.

You can't state difference and also state equality. We have to state sameness to understand equality.

As far as I'm concerned, if you want to find out about the last day of WWII or the roots of the Indian Mutiny, get thee to a books catalogue.

The past is always tense, the future perfect.

Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

Every moment happens twice: inside and outside, and they are two different histories.

Don’t romanticise your ‘vocation’. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no ‘writer’s lifestyle’. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

Time is how you spend your love.

I am the sole author of the dictionary that defines me.

Don't confuse honours with achievement.

Pulchritude--beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection.

My main memories of my father are of his illness.

My IQ is somewhere between Spiro Agnew's and Albert Einstein's.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned, it seems, to direct the Middle East policy of the Obama administration.

I heard Bob Weinstein actually likened actors to baseball players. You work for a while then all of a sudden you go through a dry spell.

...until the Crusades Islam was indistinguishable from Judaism and... only then did it receive its independent character, while Muhammad and the first Caliphs are mythical figures.

Romance novels are my favorite books to read. I write young adult romances, and am so happy to be promoting this wonderful genre.

Brands need to reinvent themselves from time to time to stay relevant.

Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon.

For you know only a heap of broken images