What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

The secret of flight is this -- you have to do it immediately, before your body realizes it is defying the laws.

There is a beauty in the world, though it's harsher than we expect it to be.

we become the stories we tell ourselves

I was not ladylike, nor was I manly. I was something else altogether. There were so many different ways to be beautiful.

Language in fiction is made up of equal parts meaning and music. The sentences should have rhythm and cadence, they should engage and delight the inner ear.

I suspect any serious reader has a first great book, just the way anybody has a first kiss.

One always has a better book in one's mind than one can manage to get onto paper.

Take me with you. I want a doomed love. I want streets at night, wind and rain, no one wondering where I am.

They seemed to come suddenly upon happiness as if they had surprised a butterfly in the winter woods.

To be truly positive in the eyes of some, you have to risk appearing negative in the eyes of others.

I can't really have any friends. It's sad, really. It's lonely. But that's how I am.

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you."

A majority, perhaps as many as 75 percent, of abortion clinics are in areas with high minority populations.

The belly is the giver of genius.

I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.

Sometimes you make up your mind about something without knowing why, and your decision persists by the power of inertia. Every year it gets harder to change.

We trust and believe in what we love.

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road.