When I'm working on a serious and solid book ... I read about a detective novel a day. It's the best legal dope in the world. It makes you feel good until the next morning you can work again.

Anyone who has a choice and doesn't choose to write is a fool. The work is hard, the perks are few, the pay is terrible, and the product, when it's finally finished, is pure joy.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.

Having watched herself in the speckled mirror ... she was already shocked beyond surprise at what the flat hand of age could do.

[The inspiration that comes to authors of fiction] is not an act of intelligence.

distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)

You have first flown with your mind to every goal you have ever achieved.

We were sleeping on the same bed with our backs to each other trying to imagine a new life.

The more we get attached to any relationship, the more we lose the grip on our emotional freedom.

I wrote the book 'Grace, Gold & Glory' because I had to overcome many challenges and hardships. I wanted to share my story to let anyone facing hardships know that your dream is still possible.

All men are potential rapists.

For me, an area of moral clarity is: you're in front of someone who's suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

If God wants us to do a thing, he should make his wishes sufficiently clear. Sensible people will wait till he has done this before paying much attention to him.

[C]reationists [and] other religious enthusiasts [are], in many parts of the world ..., the most dangerous adversaries of science.