Speaking as a writer, I'm not interested in trends, I want to write books that are honest, with characters as true to the inner world of the story as I can make them.

Adults have big, big wishes that we do not expect to come true. That is why we need so many more candles on our cakes.

And even if you carry a survival kit around with you at all times, it won't guarantee you'll survive. No kit in the world can protect you from all the possible bad things.

Because sometimes Lucky wanted to change everything, all the bad things that had happened, and sometimes she wanted everything to stay the same forever.

Life is partly what we make it, and partly what it is made by the friends we choose.

Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult and difficult as if they were easy in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep in the other that it may not be dismayed.

Bring thyself to account each day ere thou art summoned to a reckoning; for death, unheralded, shall come upon thee and thou shalt be called to give account for thy deeds.

Squaring numbers are just like women. If they're under thirteen, just do them in your head.

One colossal advantage of being in extra innings is that you can tell it like it is, say what you think, and largely eschew political caution.

I always tell my fans that are closest to me, if it's not coming from my mouth, my website, or my appointed person, then it's generally not true. Or it's an exaggeration.

I'm an extremely vulnerable person. Vulnerability and emotion are very closely linked.

Live with a purpose, play with a purpose.

Life is a great adventure…accept it in such a spirit.

My only aversion to vice, is the price.