It’s not my job to want you or not want you. It’s not my job to earn you.

She smiled, and her eyes started to drift downward. "Cather..." Back up to his eyes. "You know that I'm falling in love with you, right?

So, what if, instead of thinking about solving you whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow.

In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google.)

You're a kaleidoscope, you change every time I look away.

Drinking tequila is more about the journey than the destination

Every woman wants a man who'll fall in love with her soul as well as her body.

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

You don’t have to be the kind of beautiful that everyone can agree on. If the right person finds you beautiful, you win. You win forever.

To really be a nerd, she'd decided, you had to prefer fictional worlds to the real one.

Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.

Advice for a long and happy life - never tell a writer you have fixed their work. Ever.

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.

Our identities are tremendously warped and distorted by yesterday's trauma and tomorrow's expectations.

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

It is a family; it's a slightly dysfunctional family, but it's also very close and warm and loving family.

The objective is to do things well in London.

I'm totally in control of this tiny, tiny world right there at the typewriter.

I can't say I don't get nervous, but I really kind of enjoy performing now.

Decisions should be based on facts, objectively considered what I call the fact-founded, thought-through approach to decision making.

Women are always beautiful.