I’ve never pondered my own life until I started watching fictional ones fight for theirs.

There is no apology for passion

It was your personality that consumed me. You became my favorite. My favorite of them all…

Some things have a natural way of solving themselves. Sometimes you just have to let it go and observe it get solved.

If not his life, Rustom Iraqiwalla wanted his death to be worth something.

We planted flowers last year and I didn't know if I'd be alive to see them come up.

Technology may create a condition, but the questions are what do we do about ourselves. We better understand ourselves pretty clearly and we better find ways to like ourselves.

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases.

To me, 'selling out' means everyone bought a ticket.

I don't want my past to become anyone else's future.

I believe in treating others as I want to be treated--but I certainly don't believe in turning the other cheek and the truth is that I never knew any Christians who did either.

I was always determined that one way or another I would force a book on the world, even if I had to resort to writing one about a tabby cat who solves mysteries.