The novel remains a very special form for me.

I'm one of three brothers.

Her lips were like the soft beauty of a delicately designed silken scarf.

I'm a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy.

I feel like a centrist, an issue-specific person. I'm pretty conservative fiscally and pretty liberal on social issues.

I've always wanted to write a novel. It's overwhelming and daunting, and it's one of those things that every writer fantasizes about doing.

Listening takes practice, and it takes patience. But I promise, if you listen, your story will be better for it.

Where I came from, no one was a writer.

In a novel, the relationship between writer and reader is such a pure one.

In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination.

I have a ways to go as a novelist. But what's great is, well, I frankly enjoyed the solitude. And I enjoyed being able to tell characters what to say and do without negotiating with an actor.

Girl, don't let your dreams be dreams. You know this living's not so hard as it seems.

But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?"Catherine: "I cannot tell."Henry: "Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them.

As he was growing up, his family moved and lived in a number of different places in Utah, Arizona, and Wyoming. I didn't know then that moving around so much should have been a problem, so it wasn't.

Whether I shall be unfortunate depends also on others; whether I shall be unhappy depends only on myself.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

Only religious fanatics and totalitarian states equate morality with legality.

Some things are good, some middling, more bad.

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

Taste has no system and no proofs.

But once in a while you might see me at In and Out Burger; they make the best fast food hamburgers around.