Our love is our burden.

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.

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.

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 glance over at him

From where we stand the rain seems random. If we could stand somewhere else, we would see the order in it.

Once born, how long a man will live matters. Once dead, how long he has lived doesn’t.

It is high time the ideal of success should be replaced with the ideal of service.

Every human being who has ever lived has suffered from a messiah complex-except one.

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.

I've been in enough films where the studio wanted that extra little cuteness to make it sellable.

I read 'The Great Gatsby' in high school and was hypnotized by the beauty of the sentences and moved by the story about the irrevocability of lost love.

He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.

Wuxia is a fantasy world exists in everyone's mind.