I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy but we want to be happier than other people which is almost always difficult since we think them happier than they are.

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.

The unfortunate part is there's not enough balance in the legislative chambers, and particularly the senate that has to do that confirmation for there to be enough pushback.

Stay aligned with your intentions and your good will find you.

I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior.

I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That's like I wrote a joke that didn't work, but now I have to tell it for a year.

Unfortunately I have never been good in math. Numbers simply do not interest me or seem as real to me as words.

More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else.

The LA Lakers are so good they could run a fast break with a medicine ball.