I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

The kind of individual that you see on the outside, is never the same person on the inside.

The privilege of the grave: Its occupant has one privilege which is not exercised by any living person: free speech.

The proper function of man is to live not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them.

Courage, I now see, is a journey involving self-doubt and self-examination, with the end never in sight.

Nostalgia is, 'Hey, remember the other mall that used to be there?'

Just be kind to each other. That's it.

One would understand a ban on surrogate advertising, but to completely ban [smoking] is ridiculous, a joke taken too far.

My definition of what makes a journey wholly or partially horrible is boredom.

I happen to be pretty productive when I am in jail. When you are in jail, you have to spend more time with yourself.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.