Usually I decide on what it is I'm writing next by the books I'm reading.

Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning and color and purpose into our lives.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

I am not a fan of historical fiction that is sloppy in its research or is dishonest about the real history.

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

What we leave behind in this life is the memory of who we were and what we did. An imprint, no more.

Pas a pas, se va luenh. Step by step, we make our way.

There comes always a moment when the desire to act, however ill the cause, is stronger than the wish to listen.

Actually, I can write anywhere - airport lounges, in bed, on a rattling train going north.

The United States was a big country where everybody wore funny t-shirts and ate too much.

Better be a desperate single with many options than a sad married with no option.

Great achievers see failure as a stepping stone to success.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

If a problem is too difficult to solve, one cannot claim that it is solved by pointing at all the efforts made to solve it.

I like to move quickly. I don't like the nature of television of just sitting around and overshooting.

Fear is the most elegant weapon, your hands are never messy

Feast to-day makes fast to-morrow. Lat.

If you don't want to see the biggest fool in your life; break your bedroom mirror.

I like people too much or not at all.