It was a sphincter at the top of a black bowl. A fitting commentary on the FAYZ, Diana thought. A giant sphincter.

She was no longer theirs. She was his. And he was hers. And this was their world.

I had a polynomial once. My doctor removed it.

And yes, we do have some food. Maybe you'd like to join us? Unless you want to stick with your sheep sushi.

If God gives you a Quiznos, can I have a bite? No way. You have to pray for your own food.

A man without pleasure is a man without any idea what life is about

Slice and Dice, Slice and Dice

It's vital to keep a sense of humour when the world seems to have suddenly become a very strange place.

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

Ninth graders with machine guns: its hard to make that a happy story.

[Caine] "Interesting. Me, I've always wanted to know who my real parents were." [Sam] "Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles.

[P]olitics is always a Kampfplatz.

Many men know the recipes of life, but only few go into the kitchen to cook it. Go make it happen!

Emerging from chaos, came Light, filling need.

Why then you're as mad as me. No, madder. For I distrust 'reality' and its moron mother, the universe, while you fasten your innocence to fallible devices which pretend at happy endings.

The reason we race isn't so much to beat each other, he understood, but to be with each other.

Normally, I have a lot of alpha readers on my books. These are people that, once I finish a novel, I let them look at it and give me a reader response.

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

As a reader, I notice political views regardless of whether or not the book is fiction. What annoys me is when said views do nothing to advance the narrative.

Everybody dies. There's nothing you can do about it. Whether you eat six almonds a day. Whether or not you believe in God.

The motto I live by is "you can't out-train bad nutrition". You've got to just eat healthy. So like 90 per cent of it is diet, 10 per cent of it is working out.