In the good mystery there is nothing wasted, no sentence, no word that is not significant.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

I wanted love to conquer all. But love can't conquer anything.

I was seventeen all over again, falling into intrigue with the boy who was an exquisite contradiction.

My mother is the one true hero of my life

What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about.

By the time we complete the care for the wounded soldiers, $6 trillion, that's $50,000 per American household.

Discomfort is very much part of my master plan.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

Our names are labels, plainly printed on the bottled essence of our past behavior.

Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection?

I personally love books that make me think, so I naturally gravitate toward writing a book like that, one that's going to make someone think and make me think.