True love, the kind that lasts forever, is very rare indeed. It takes compromise, continued growth, and trust.

Blake took her face in his hands. “You let me touch you. Kiss you. Your skin? It feels like piano keys. My hands know just where to go.

You make the rest of the beautiful things in the world cry for even trying at all. You make it hard for me to breathe.

Don't tie your success to anything other than what's inside you

In that moment? I knew you were sent to me, that I'd been given nothing from the people in my life, but I think from God, or whoever is in charge, I got you.

Hardship bred a bitter, quickfire humour and resilience to all but the most terminal of life's tragedies.

You are an intriguing combination, half child, half seductress, half angel.

For too long we have been taking, and the Earth has been giving. But that free-for-all, that all-you-can-eat buffet, it's over. The salad bar is closed.

You can have information or you can have a life, but you can't have both.

I think every person should go to jail once.

I have never been particularly impressed by the self centered musings of my fellow writers.

You want to play in the best stadiums against the best players - your Real Madrid's and Barcelona's - you want to play those teams.

Hillary Clinton is more in the center of things than I am, but she also knows how to work with the opposition, which is a necessary talent in politics right now.

You never quite know in business if what you are doing is the right or the wrong thing. Unfortunately, by the time you know the answer, someone has beaten you to it and you are out of business.

It's a wonderful thing, as a writer, to be given parameters and walls and barriers.