The gleam in their eyes telegraphs only too clearly that they are hoping for a headline, which of course means something disparaging, because nothing makes such good copy as a feud.

Any stupid remark, quoted often enough, becomes gospel.

It should cause no surprise that anyone so lazy as myself should be economical to the point of miserliness with everything he writes.

For there is a price ticket on everything that puts a whizz into life, and adventure follows the rule. It's distressing, but there you are.

I am an absurd idealist. But I believe that all that must come true. For, unless it comes true, the world will be laid desolate. And I believe that it can come true.

I had still never read one of the Bond books when the movie Dr. No came out.

Everything I write is designed to be milked to the last drop of revenue.

If I didn't see its place in the Saga when I planned it, I probably wouldn't write it at all.

A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

If we want kids with 'aspiration', we need to give them something to aspire to.

What I understand now about survival is that something in you dies. You don't become a survivor intact. Survival's cost is always loss.

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you...

The great truth about Christianity is not that we love God - it's that God loves us.

I will never look at you in the same way ever again. I'll never be that girl again. The girl who comes running back every time you push her away, the girl who loves you anyway.

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

When someone tells me not to do something, I'll do it more.

It is so seldom in this world that things come just when they are wanted.

Fate leads him who follows it, and drags him who resist.