The whole world's writing novels, but nobody's reading them.

There are always loose ends in real life.

He wondered fleetingly how many people who sat alone for hours as they scribbled their stories practiced talking about their work during their coffee breaks....

the walking stick, like a burqa, conferred protective status...

Forever encased in the amber of a writer's prose.

...the safest way of ensuring that secret information did not leak was not to tell anybody about it.

Knowing what to do with time is the key to being productive

There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason.

It’s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God’s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept.

Each of the patriots whom we remember on this day was first a beloved son or daughter, a brother or sister, or a spouse, friend, and neighbor.

Oh, I'm sorry. Did I interrupt some sort of dominance foreplay?

I'm still the fat kid from high school who never had a date.

My greatest competition is, well, me.

You become writer by writing. It is a yoga.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I love Karlie Kloss. I want to bake cookies with her!