I will not let my sales figures dictate what I say on the blog, because the blog is what I want to say.

Engrave this in your brain: EVERY WRITER GETS REJECTED. You will be no different.

If you want me to treat your ideas with more respect, get some better ideas.

I am not responsible for actions of the imaginary version of me you have inside your head.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

I thought I saw him once, but it turned out to be a yeti

There's a difference between the fact that the universe is inherently unfair on a cosmic level, and the fact that life is unfair because people are actively making it so.

When you're a teenager and you're in love, it's obvious to everyone but you and the person you're in love with.

Christianity is a fine religion and I wish more Christians practiced it.

Don’t discount that part of who he was just because you didn’t know it. None of us are all of who we are to any one person.

I was a child, and in 1942, I was evacuated to the Cotswolds with my mother, who was a teacher - she went with her school. I lived in one house in the village, and my mother was in the vicarage.

When you come to Venice, you do special work.

You can do anything. Nothing is forbidden.

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Originality provokes originality.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

Men are like mascara, they run at the slightest display of emotion.

Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.

It is notorious that the desire to live increases as life itself shortens.