It's easy now, now that it's a story. When you were going through it, it was life. Always much harder to get the plot line on.

I have never been on the receiving end of a hate crime, or even a disparaging remark to my face.

You come from the city and think small means simple when all it realy means is complicated in a smaller place. Which sometimes adds to the complication.

Taking on a pet is a contract with sorrow.

Romance no longer looked like so much fun, more like a repetitive stress injury.

I don't know where everything is going, but I'm pretty confident that people like books - the objects. So I'm going to go on that -they're not going to disappear.

I'm never sure who I'm writing for, or who's reading me, but I definitely see myself in conspiracy with my readers.

I think we are all coming to realize the web in all its manifestations is a sucking time hole.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

But they were not friends. They were here to keep each other from spinning off alone into the dark matter of the universe.

Storming was one of her main modes of transportation." In reference to teenager Heather in "Carry The One

When you hate someone it means you like it.

I wonder if anyone can ever succeed in making their children content.

I realize I don't do a very good job in keeping up to date, but I try to.

I have no shame in making music that maybe, if you listen to it long enough, you'll realize you've heard this or that part of it before.

The legitimacy of a war is not established by how it is organized but by what it achieves.

I've always known I was adopted.

When men are inhuman, take care not to feel towards them as they do towards other humans.

Know how to treat frostbite until you can get indoors.

Christians ought to have a reputation for being the most dependable people at work. They are always aware of who their true boss is.

It has been the experience of a lifetime to work with Catherine Middleton to create her wedding dress, and I have enjoyed every moment of it.