We have to believe going through darkness will eventually bring us light. Especially when night is out forever.

Lost things never like to be found until they've been forgotten.

Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

When I need to identify rebels, I look for men with principles

I was Chairman Mao's dog. I bit whomever he asked me to bite.

When a young writer comes up to me with an ambitious idea for a 20-book series, I usually tell him to maybe try something smaller to start off with.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

From the disease of one the whole flock perishes.

All mothers think their children are oaks, but the world never lacks for cabbages.

You don't discipline yourself to attain the feeling of love. You attain the feeling of love and then you want to discipline yourself because you love the discipline, because it brings more love.

In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.