I've fallen in love with you, " he whispered to kiss the top of my hand.

We stood side by side, and for that minute, in the stillness of that room, he was not the King. I was not not the Princess, taken against her will to the City. We were two people trying to forget.

Listen up - there's no war that will end all wars.

Failure is success in abeyance

None of us gets to choose how we're born, it's what we make of ourselves afterwards.

They say any landing you can walk away from is a good one.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

I don't think anyone's normal.

I think there's a playfulness and a distance to Kavalier and Clay that I don't aspire to in my stuff. Maybe I'm more old-fashioned, and less of a fabulist, in that way.

By writing I can live in ways that I could not survive.

I would hate to be 65 and think, 'What if I had tried to be an actor?

I never wanted anything so much, I've got to have one. I want a girl in a pickup truck.