To say a person is a happy person or an unhappy person is ridiculous. We are a thousand different kinds of people every hour.

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

My preference is for prose with more silence in it, language that contains more pockets of strangeness.

Watching teething babies is like watching over a thermonuclear reactor-it is best done in shifts, by well-rested people.

It's embarrassingly plain how inadequate language is.

Anyone who has spent a few nights in a tent during a storm can tell you: The world doesn't care all that much if you live or die.

Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience--buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello--become new all over again.

A real diamond is never perfect.

For me, writing historical fiction is all about finding a balance between reading, traveling, looking, imagining, and dreaming.

What is history? An echo of the past in the future

...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...

Where's Kraven? Is he stalking me too?"His mouth went tight. "I'm not stalking you.

It is so liberating to really know what I want, what truly makes me happy, what I will not tolerate. I have learned that it is no one else's job to take care of me but me.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

Original visions are often wrong. Companies have to morph as they learn what customers don't want.

For most people, the authentic things are relationships, friends, and family.

You know, life is long. My shooting career is long.

Rumors of my wealth are greatly exaggerated. I have never been interested in money.