If you can't write like New York, you have no business living in New York and making New York the locale of your stories.

Love, when you get fear in it, it's not love any more. It's hate.

If your writing doesn't keep you up at night, it won't keep anyone else up either".

I loved her like a rabbit loves a rattlesnake

Writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational.

You usually can tell when a writer is going down hill by the size of his liquor bill.

I write of the wish that comes true--for some reason, a terrifying thought.

She was a little given to rehearsing things in her mind, and having imaginary triumphs over people who had upset her in one way and another.

Time is the only critic.

If you have to do it, you can do it.

That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

Love is a sacred entity.

You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

CEOs will gladly overpay for a company if the acquisition enables them to keep their jobs.

Still enveloped in a blanket of dreams he (life) continued to lie still, pretended as if he was in a deep slumber.

I have found that a smile and a stick will carry you through all right, and in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it is the smile that does the trick.

Brick and mortar businesses - and the communities that depend on them - cannot continue to bear an unfair sales tax burden from which their on-line competitors are effectively exempt.

Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

Wake up early everyday so that while others are still dreaming, you can make your dreams come true.

Everything you know, all the things that you thought were important, drift into the background. And even things that were important really come to the fore and he's one of them.

Just the act of cooking made her feel better, because cooking was life.