The sense of belonging is one of the great gifts men get in battle.

I love writing. I love the swirl and swing of words as they tangle with human emotions.

Character consists of what you do on the third and fourth tries.

Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow.

The really great writers are people like Emily Brontë who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

I have never thought of myself as a good writer. Anyone who wants reassurance of that should read one of my first drafts. But I'm one of the world's great rewriters.

I'm not a very good writer, but I'm an excellent rewriter.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

If your book doesn't keep you up nights when you are writing it, it won't keep anyone up nights reading it.

An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.

People loved you in the way they knew how - and often it was not the way you knew. Or needed.

Writing is above all a question of instinct.

When you feel homesick,’ he said, ‘just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go.

It is not surprising that Venice is known above all for mirrors and glass since Venice is the most narcissistic city in the world, the city that celebrates self-mirroring.

You manage things and lead people.

I have a bag full of stuff that I give to people when they come to my house.

I'm like Madonna: I'm Ming-Na. Just my first and middle name. That's it. Pure and simple.

Fully stripped down, an onion is a pile of scattered layers; it has no center.

The architecture of change involves the design and construction of new patterns, or the reconceptualization of old ones, to make new, and hopefully more productive, actions possible.

If you want to find out what the future of the Republican Party is if Hillary Clinton wins, take a look at California.