We have to take flight. It's not given to us, served up on a pretty, parsley-bordered platter. We have to take wing. Was I brave enough to do that? Or would I be content to remain earthbound?

Of course women are flighty, I thought. We have more predators than men.

THE AMPUTATED HEARTBEATS HARDER

People can live through hardship, but from hard feelings they perish.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

The victory always has a lot of parents but the defeat is always an orphan.

If that a pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.

We see women who go out and want to look like Jennifer Aniston, and they're wearing an ill-fitting red dress and ugly gold shoes, and they've got flat hair and they can't walk.

You don't want to make an enemy of Piers Morgan.