Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

She liked the way his smile took a long time to arrive and just as long to leave.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see, but it is impossible. Humans hide their secrets too well....

(...) and spend my days surrounded by wise books, - bright windows in this life of ours, lit by the shining souls of men.

A popular Harvard business professor urged his students to read the obituaries in the New York Times before they read anything else, in order to learn from the lives of great men.

You fill my soul with hope and love.Together, we will remain through the heavens above.One soul, together. For always and forever…

I didn't want to be a priest. I wanted to do the work that priests do, and that required becoming a priest.

It's in my wheelhouse to be creepy, as a person.

Very few people can truly divorce themselves from what they feel emotionally and sexually.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

I am suggesting to you the simple idea that people work harder and smarter if they find their work satisfying and know that it is appreciated.

Where are Bernie Sanders' supporters today? They were openly toyed with and defrauded.