It's where I keep all my things. Get a lot of compliments on this. Plus it's not a purse, it's called a satchel. Indiana Jones wears one.

She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.

I loathe crowds. I especially dont like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

Im not supposed to be within two hundred feet of a school or a Chuck E. Cheese.

I wish Monkeys could Skype. Maybe one day.

I love research so much that I do an enormous amount; it helps put off the moment of starting to write the story.

Everything I have ever written has been in the same chair, in the same room.

I learnt that I must never finish a book with nothing else to do.

Hitting the gym to release stress is not nearly as effective as hitting the people that cause the stress to begin with.

Possessive parents rarely live long enough to see the fruits of their selfishness.

If you are going to write, nothing will stop you, and if you are not going to write, nothing will make you.

for whenever men are right they are not young

Fight for your dreams with all your strength, soul and spirit.

Of course, that’s how life is. A turn of events may seem very small at the time it’s happening, but you never really know, do you? How can you?

For peace and brotherhood, I am ready to serve the Turkish state, and I believe that for this end I must remain alive.

Here I am with you & yet not for a single moment do I forget that there's an unfinished novel waiting for me.

Individuality is the aim of political liberty.

Finite mind cannot comprehend infinity.

I don't text, I don't have a Blackberry. Literally, I just have a cell phone that I haven't programmed and the whole Bluetooth. No. I don't even have an earpiece for my cell phone.

The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.