When did I stop being me?

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Someone needs to buy a radio station, then play nothing but audio books, with a different genre of book played at set times. That way we can always have something new to read, no matter where we are.

The feeling of being 'offended' is a warning indicator that is showing you where to look within yourself for unresolved issues.

Life is simple. Make good decisions and good things happen. Make bad decisions and bad things happen.

I think it's hard to write a book about happiness because fiction requires tension and complication.

The glow and energy of the healthy woman is the ultimate beauty, the only beauty that will last.

If you were born to be a nail, you had to be hammered.

To me, there's nothing funnier than funny people in peril, because it's just a great springboard for people to be at a heightened emotionality and things get funnier.

Be like the fountain that overflows, not like the cistern that merely contains.

There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.

My problem with interviews, one day I'll think one thing, and the next day I'll think the exact opposite.