I tend to be a very logical, practical person.

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.

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

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.

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

She waves her arms at the world. "It's all just time filler until we die.

Unlike sharing, where the group is mainly an aggregate of participants, cooperating creates group identity.

Of course, the spectacle of two people's happiness is always something of a magnet for the unclaimed.

Decide exactly what you want and resolve to persist, no matter what, until you achieve it.

There is an old saying, The harder you try the luckier you get. I kind of like that definition of luck.

The only way to oppose a bad idea is to replace it with a good idea.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

My friend Bill O’Reilly is completely full of sh*t.

Born to lose. Live to win.