It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

Business is about creating VALUE for people. And earning money is the OUTCOME of creating value for people!

Today there are more people who know the words to a television commercial than know the words in the Bible.

The best gift you can give to someone is spending time with them. The worst thing you can do someone is to avoid them when they badly need you.

Myth offers a third place to stand or a third way to see when we find ourselves caught between opposing ideas and hardening ideologies.

I know I'm good when I'm hitting the ball the other way - that's Albert Pujols.

Aggressive capitalism leads the world, and we can see the results, especially in Europe: more poverty for the vast majority, and more riches for a few.

The imagery is very much released from reality. It's not nailed down to specifics of the words. They're painting a picture, not telling linear stories.

In life, periods of solitude were blessings. Dying alone was a bitter curse.

I've often thought that the process of aging could be slowed down if it had to go through Congress.

There are a million really good cigars, you gotta really float around cigars. It's not like being locked into a brand of cigarettes; at least to me it's not.