Unless one is inordinately fond of subordination, one is always at war.

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.

You’ll see, ” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.

What are we doing here? Has something gone wrong?”“Oh no, Ron, ” came Fred’s voice, very sarcastically. “No, this is exactly where we wanted to end up.

Empathy is the ultimate form of customer insight.

this one whom habit of memory propels to the ground of his making, sleeper only the mortal sounds can sing awake, this blessing love gives again into our arms.

It is sensible to have a safeguard against unemployment.

There is no way in which a simple substance could begin in the course of nature, since it cannot be formed by means of compounding.

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love.

I believe I am doing the work for humanity. This show is so uplifting.

Actors, after all, dream.

The sewer is the conscience of the city.