We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not.

Novels are fictions and therefore they tell lies, but through those lies every novelist attempts to tell the truth about the world.

There's hope for everyone. That's what makes the world go round.

Stories only happen to those who are able to tell them.

It always stimulates me to discover new examples of my own prejudice and stupidity, to realize that I don't know half as much as I think I do.

One should never underestimate the power of books.

If you're not ready for everything, you're not ready for anything.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.

It often happens that things are other than what they seem, and you can get yourself into trouble by jumping to conclusions.

Memory is the space in which a thing happens for a second time.

It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.

Sometimes taking a leap faith requires an imaginative mind that can create the ending you are unable to see.

Rock n Roll Animal, the live album, is one of the greatest live albums out there. It was a huge influence on me.

Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.

It's TV shows like 'Buffy' and 'Angel' that usually have an incredible cliffhanger every commercial break that amaze me.

Given the unfairness that strikes so many people in life, I would rather believe in a God of limited power and unlimited love and justice, rather than the other way around.

What is art? Nature concentrated.

(All the grief she had suffered over her lifetime had moulded her face into a mask of eternal sadness)

You can't do in a race what you haven't prepared for.

For a long time, I was a career woman and that was it.

Look not to a woman's head for her brains, but rather to her heart.