...My friend, there are some things that I cannot tell you. Some I will tell you in time; some, others will tell you; some you may never know, or you may be the first to find the answers.

The story is always better than your ability to write it. My belief about this is that if you ever get to the point that you think you've done a story justice, you're in the wrong business.

When they finished laughing they were on their way to being not just friends, but the dearest of friends, the sort of friends whose lives are shaped by the friendship.

Because she was a princess she had a pegasus.

The story is always better than your ability to write it.

I advise those who want to become writers to study veterinary medicine, which is easier. You don't want to be a writer unless you have no choice - and if you have no choice, good luck to you.

There are things you don't want to know you can do

My capacity for invention is flash hot stark, I thought. Sucker sunshade. Disembodied radar-reconnaissance. Not to mention Bitter Chocolate Death and Killer Zebras. Pity about the rest of me.

Perhaps it is a human thing, to look upon such beauty and fail to encompass it.

[Harry] had always suffered from a vague restlessness, a longing for adventure that she told herself severely was the result of reading too many novels when she was a small child.

It is a much more straightforward thing to be a dog, and a dog's love, once given, is not reconsidered.

There is only one kind of love, but there are a thousand different versions.

When you stop existing and you start truly living, each moment of the day comes alive with the wonder and synchronicity.

Memories establish the past

Anyone 100% optimistic is on medicine.Anyone 100% pessimistic should be.

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

It isn't a mistake to have strong views. The mistake is to have nothing else.

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

Maybe I'm just sensitive to that person who's on the outside.

Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin.

There are pedosexuals who, even if the court forces them to go into treatment, do not pursue it or cannot pursue it.