Something primal was awake within her, a violent will to live as old as the universe itself.

If this is dying, Chloe thought, I'd like to do it again sometime.

Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart into you? Invention, energy, wit, style, charm--they've all got to be paid for in hard cash.

But giving up's easy. You know what's hard? To believe in your own worth, to know you've got something special in you even if nobody else can see it. Even when you can't.

I suppose not everyone has a dad who wrote a book saying he didn't believe in the Parliamentary road to socialism.

What Paul says about Peter tells us more about Paul than about Peter.

If you develop rules, never have more than ten.

I'd like to work with David Lynch again.

When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing.

My eyes make pictures when they are shut.

I was never much of a reader. I'm a slow reader, which is unusual, because I'm so into language and I love words so much. But it's hard for me to read.

You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.