Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.

It's hard to make things right for everyone.""But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.

Wait a second, " Clary said."I never understand why people say that, " Luke said, to no one in particular. "I wasn't going anywhere.

Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.

I sketched North America onto my crude and now crowded map, and Hao was astounded to learn that it was not a piece of Europe, as he had always assumed.

The Epicureans denied that the gods had created the world and also denied that they played any role in it.

Just let your hand drop; and let fate decide for you.

Do you wish to see God's love? Look at the cross. Do you wish to see God's wrath? Look at the cross.

I married first, won the Oscar before Olivia (sister Olivia de Havilland) did, and if I die first, she'll undoubtedly be livid because I beat her to it!

If you want to know how to solve society's problems, you start out with better public education.

I don't study; I create.

When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.