Perhaps, in the extravagance of youth, we give away our devotions easily and all but arbitrarily, on the mistaken assumption that we’ll always have more to give.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Well I know I was contracted to Polydor so they couldn't use my name.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

That last guy hit me awfully hard.

We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment.

Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Dore Schary was then head of the studio and he wanted to change my name.

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels.

My novels are often about people who are in love or attracted to each other.

The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.