Sometimes the most effective idea was just so simple that nobody could slow down their brain enough to think it up.

An infinitely unpleasant fraction of a second is a small price to pay for the opportunity to stride across eternity.

True lovers may never know what love means. A man may love a woman out of his reach. She does not know he loves her, and he will never speak of it.

What would I have done without books?

Everybody should have a librarian.

Nobody can take what I love away from me. I would like to believe that love is the only energy I've ever used as a writer. I've never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.

Spring is the Period Express from God.

Shaun Wright-Phillips has got a big heart. It's as big as him, which isn't very big, but it's bigger.

I was fascinated by the effects that could be achieved by editing. The cutting room became a magic workshop for me.

It's nice to have someone write a couture character for you.

..the true test of spirituality [is] in the freedom to live among people compassionately....Prayer frees us to be controlled by God.

I don't want my kids saying, 'My dad was a gangster, so I need to be a gangster. I would rather mine say, 'My dad was a stunna, so I need to be a stunna.'