When you're in the world looking for only one thing, you find it or it finds you. The obsession can be mutual

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Having a roof over your head with enough food to eat is a fundamental need of all humans if they are to achieve happiness.

The temptation to betray a secret, always breathing its hot breath in your ear.

Moving is hard. Staying is easy. Logistically speaking, at least. And this is true whether you're doing or undoing something.

Don't be afraid to fall in love again. Open your heart and follow where it leads you...and remember, shoot for the moon.

All beneficent and creative power gathers itself together in silence, ere it issues out in might.

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

Usually, the team that turns the ball over less will hold on to the ball more

And, gentlemen, they have not yet done so, and it is quite clear that no Americans, no people in the world probably, are going to war with the Soviet Union.

Be careful what you dream: soon your dreams will be dreaming you.

I loved to hit with men on base and with the game on the line.