Publishing is a business and writing is an art. The two have to be crammed together despite the clearly different motivations behind them.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Enough regret can crush any man, living or dead.

He lived to near the things he loved to seem poetical.

I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat.

Being a Jew, you realize your strongest weapon is your mind.

I'm not a bath man myself. More of a cologne man.

I didn't approve of murder on general principles. Not even of people who seemed to go around begging for it.

Using telephones, they would be so intrusive and would really disrupt the show.

The world we are in today is likely to end catastrophically, as many other human worlds have done before.

I'm the tower of power, too sweet to be sour.

I kiss him as the train slides into unlit, uncertain land. I kiss him for as long as I want, for longer than I should, given that my brother sits three feet away from me.