You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

The danger with hatred is, once you start in on it, you get a hundred times more than you bargained for. Once you start, you can't stop.

One cannot make bargains for blissesOr catch them like fishes in netsAnd sometimes the things that life misses Help more than the things that it gets.

I know I’m the one who has shattered the perfection that was our souls as one.

Humor, motivations, moral, gods, energy, secrecy

A leader can lose his people if he does not know the problems they are facing.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

I remember I did think, 'Wouldn't it be nice if Mr Right moved in next door?'

"Anyway... I find what you write interesting." "That's what people usually say when they disagree with it."

The market is a democracy in which every penny gives a right to vote.

Created half to rise, and half to fall; Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all; Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurled; The glory, jest, and riddle of the world!

My acting gives me my self-worth