This middle age thing is a little weird. Some friends and mentors are gone, and there's a very forward-looking new generation coming up behind me. So it's very much finding my own place.

Love is the extremely difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

To be prepared against surprise is to be trained. To be prepared for surprise is to be educated.

Fear is a weakness. It makes a person lose her nerve and her cool. It makes people jumpy and organizations nervous, and when that happens, there is always a chance to take advantage.

We treat what’s lost, what could have never been, what we could have never dreamed of, again. We treat it like heirlooms for it is so precious. For we know it can be lost, again.

Reality is a hallucination shared by most sane men.

Rumours began with the whispered gossip of native servants and spread quickly to the rest of the population.

Life isn't a science. We make it up as we go.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

In all my characters, I try to find an iota of myself, and in Castle, I found a lot. He gets away with a lot, so that's fun.

I have two homes in Malibu, a home in Canada that I'm building, and I just love pouring my heart out into this part of my life.