Quoyle experienced moments in all colors, uttered brilliancies, paid attention to the rich sound of waves counting stones, he laughed and wept, noticed sunsets, heard music in rain, said I do.

You know, one of the tragedies of real life is that there is no background music.

You should write because you love the shape of stories and sentences and the creation of different words on a page. Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

I wish I knew how to quit you.

Writing comes from reading, and reading is the finest teacher of how to write.

Anyway, there's something wrong with everybody and it's up to you to know what you can handle.

If you get the landscape right, the characters will step out of it, and they'll be in the right place.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I think it's important to leave spaces in a story for readers to fill in from their own experience.

Develop craftsmanship through years of wide reading.

What we fear we often rage against.

A kiss should be personal, not a mandatory public event

Deliver me from your cold phlegmatic preachers, politicians, friends, lovers and husbands.

We're all strange inside. We learn how to disguise our differences as we grow up.

I definitely hope to continue to release records at an accelerated pace.

People think you must be crackers if you've got a psychologist but psychology is part of the building bricks to make a top athlete.

To die is to go into the Collective Unconscious, to lose oneself in order to be transformed into form, pure form.

I think it's getting tougher and tougher, all the big teams are getting stronger and there's more of them.

When over the enemy's lines never forget your own line of retreat.

There aren't enough secrets to go round anymore. Some spies are having to invent secrets in order to earn a living.

My neighbor has a circular driveway... he can't get out.