I turn sentences around. That's my life. I write a sentence and then I turn it around. Then I look at it and turn it around again.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure.

Nothing changes and everything does.

Love as is love is the oxygen of life.

Lloyd George could not see a belt without hitting below it.

Damn your principles! Stick to your party!

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

I hate books; they only teach us to talk about things we know nothing about.

The truth always turns out to be simpler than you thought.

Few things are more powerful than learning to trust that your path to a fulfilled life - and the glorious destiny that you are meant to share with the world - is part of your soul's blueprint.

My motives at a young age were, "I want to be rich and famous".