Life is a jest of the Gods and there is no justice. You must learn to laugh… or else you'll weep yourself to death.

Pride makes a man, it drives him, it is the shield wall around his reputation... Men die, they said, but reputation does not die.

Wyrd bith ful araed (Fate is inexorable).

You won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

We all suffer from dreams

Writing is a solitary occupation.

Every day is ordinary, until it isn't.

Of course some days are easier than others, but my worst day is better than being in most humdrum occupations.

Book tours and research provide a lot of travel - too much, I sometimes think, but we do take vacations.

The existence of tricks does not imply the absence of magic.

We make children and wealth and amass land and build halls and assemble armies and give great feasts, but only one thing survives us. Reputation.

He smelled like a wolf and I knew I should run, instead I opened my heart and invited him in for a bite.

There is no man in this world without some manner of tribulation or anguish though he be king or pope.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Dean flashed me a smile that promised rule-breaking and breathlessness.

Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.

The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.

There are days when I don't want to go to the gym or find myself not super motivated upon arriving. I would visualize myself playing at the Olympics.

The power of mass intention may ultimately be the force that shifts the tide toward repair and renewal of the planet.

Love recognizes no barriers.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.