Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

I try not to divide plot and character. I get to know a character by what they want and fear and how those internal forces play out in their lives.

My main nurturing instinct toward children is mild sadism--picking them up and threatening to drop them--which is why I am a good uncle but would make a poor father.

The saddest sorrow is to desire death while you have life.

Greater love hath no man than this that he lay down his friends for his political life.

The truly greedy, it seems to me, are those who think they've a right to live well at the expense of others.

Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world.

Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

For never doubt that those souls who live least by the flesh feel themselves most defiled by its defilement.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress

I have worked with some incredible talent, and loved every minute of it.

No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.