Writers, unlike most people, tell their best lies when they are alone.

The First Amendment has the same role in my life as a citizen and a writer as the sun has in our ecosystem.

Forget about what you are escaping from. Reserve your anxiety for what you are escaping to.

The things I keep going back to, rereading, maybe they say more about me as a reader than about the books. Love in the Time of Cholera, Pale Fire.

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam.

Take care-there is no force more powerful than that of an unbridled imagination.

A delicate, inexorable lattice of inferences began to assemble themselves, like a crystal, in the old man's mind, shivering, catching the light in glints and surmises.

Man makes plans . . . and God laughs.

My Saturday Night. My Saturday night is like a microwave burrito. Very tough to ruin something that starts out so bad to begin with.

Anything good that I have written has, at some point during its composition, left me feeling uneasy and afraid. It has seemed, for a moment at least, to put me at risk.

It's always been hard for me to tell the difference between denial and what used to be known as hope.

Bitter though it may be to many, Cadfael concluded, there is no substitute for truth, in this or any case.

I'm sure I've devoted enough thought to Rush Limbaugh for one lifetime.

Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative

It is not children only that one feeds with fairy tales.

I really love my stylists, they really get what I like.

Adam Sandler is a really funny guy in real life. Separate from all of the movies, that is a funny man.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

I love good food. For me, that means lots of green juice, salad, and good dark chocolate.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

All writing is ultimately a question of solving a problem.