We take a last look out of the window at the night, and I send a silent wish to everyone out there for this kind of warmth.

The trouble with denial is that when the truth comes, you aren't ready.

There are degrees of obsession, of awareness, of grief, of insanity.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

We were nostalgic for a time that wasn't yet over.

The only barrier to entry you can create is to consistently build a great product.

You never want to be the director who dropped the ball, you know?

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

All roads that lead to success have to pass through hard work boulevard at some point.

Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire. He sleeps with clenched hands; and wakes with his own bloody nails in his palms.

Calamity is man's true touchstone.

I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.

Don't get so involved in the duties of your life and your children that you forget the pleasure. Remember why you had children.

Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.

By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will.