She glances back before stepping into the alley, and she catches her grandfather looking at her the way he does sometimes--as if she's already gone, as if he's practicing sorrow.

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.

A ship will never sink if God is on it.

Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human.

Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

I was going to be a scientist.

Vice has more martyrs than virtue; and it often happens that men suffer more to be lost than to be saved.

People who do comedy are always underrated because they make it look so easy.

Thinking is a habit, and like any other habit, it can be changed; it just takes effort and repetition.

If you can affect someone when they're young, you are in their heart forever.

The author discusses valueless measures in pointless spaces.