There were many hours when I never quite know how I'd gotten there or why I stayed.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Fear is the polio of the soul which prevents our walking by faith.

Come on, " I say, "let's go be star-crossed lovers and court disaster.

Often fear is the same emotion as excitement. It means you are breaking ground.

As my own boss, I have the opportunity to get to work with great brands, like Old Navy, and I get to style some looks together that people can actually buy and afford.

Take a little timecount five-and-twenty,Tattycoram.

The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.

Right now I'm happy to be on the ice anywhere, anytime.

Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.

I think I've been a great citizen.

Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on.