When a quiet man is moved to passion, it seems the very earth will shake.

I would rather spend an hour among the notorious than two minutes with the dull.

Friends, in my experience, are like ladies' fashions. They come and go with the seasons, and are rarely of such stout stuff as bears repeated wearing.

Even the wisest counsel is useless when it is unheeded.

You aren’t some dream I want to relive. You’re the part of my life that someone has decided to rip away and I’m trying to figure out how to tie us back together.

Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over.

One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Blind people do not need a name, I am my voice, nothing else matters.

Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.

The clergyman who lives in the city may have piety, but he must have taste.

Fiction demands structures and recognizable shapes. Big surprises only draw attention to the writer's hand.

Yes, I'm a feminist, because I see all women as smart, gifted and tough.