I think it's amazing that I'm 45 and it is the most creatively successful year of my life.

Definitions from Mulla Do-Piaza. Worry: Something to make you unnecessarily ill.

As you step out of your comfort zone, may life embrace you back.

I love writing and can't imagine not being able to do it. I want an easy life and if it had been difficult doing it I wouldn't be doing it. I do admire writers who do it even though it costs them.

For all mankind that unstained scroll unfurled, Where God might write anew the story of the World.

To be sure, the United States has profound problems, not least our faltering educational and physical infrastructure.

If the fairest features of the landscape are to be named after men, let them be the noblest and worthiest men alone.

No English director would've cast me as an officer, I promise you. Not one.

So even though I couldn't bear writing about cancer, I faced it every day.

To make three guineas do the work of five.

Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and kind as you really are, without embarrassment.