Leave no stone unturned.

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Better a serpent than a stepmother!

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

Silence and chaste reserve is woman's genuine praise, and to remain quiet within the house.

Knowledge is the food of the soul.

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

Be genuinely happy for other people's success, and always use their success stories to boost your level of will to succeed.

I want to see people turn and writhe; make them feel things they cannot see and sometimes do not know.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Just because you're the enemy of my enemy don't mean you're my friend, Han thought.

In the social jungle of human existence, there is no feeling of being alive without a sense of identity.

I didn't know there were so many ghosts in [New] York.

My life is okay, my life is pretty good.

I don't really map anything out. I just let it happen [while writing]. But once it happens, it's always there. If it's laid, it's played. If I get to page 300 and it's not working, I junk it.