I think you've got to play the hand that you're dealt and stop wishing for another hand.

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks.

I try to make my characters kind of ordinary, somebody that anybody could be. Because we've all had loves, perhaps love and loss, people can relate to my characters.

Nobody is ordinary if you know where to look.

I'm an escapist kind of writer.

Women who start out as ugly ducklings don't become beautiful swans. What they mainly become is confident ducks. They take charge of their lives.

The whole art of life is knowing the right time to say things.

Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

If you don't go to a dance you can never be rejected but you'll never get to dance either.

Because I saw my parents relaxing in armchairs and reading and liking it, I thought it was a peaceful grown-up thing to do, and I still think that.

We are all the heroes and heroines of our own lives. Our love stories are amazingly romantic; our losses and betrayals and disappointments are gigantic in our own minds.

The devil is a bad devil.

A pod in the Matrix is looking pretty good right now.

Satan can make men dance upon the brink of hell as though they were on the verge of heaven.

The worst thing you can do for love is deny it; so when you find that special someone, don't let anyone or anything to get in your way.

Entrepreneurs are never satisfied. They want to do things better. They strive for perfection and use all the ingenuity to their command to achieve it.

You have to remember that in a state like Florida, independent voters will decide the election.

In the morning, when the nothing vase casts a something shadow, like the memory of someone you've lost, what can you say about that?

To live another person's life is quite a weird thing.

Modesty and diffidence make a man unfit for public affairs; they also make him unfit for brothels.