the real reason I had wanted to grow up, the main reason I had been willing to even consider becoming an adult, was so I could have as many pets as I wanted.

When I type a title page, I hold it and I look at it and I think, I just need four thousand sentences to go with this and I’ll have a book.

My own hobbies are rather quiet. I like to read and do needlework, and I love animals.

For me, reading books and writing them are tied together. The words of other writers teach me and refresh me and inspire me.

I think how you look is the most important thing in the world. If you look cute, you are cute; if you look smart, you are smart, and if you don't look like anything, you aren't anything.

The people you don't know turn out to be exactly like the people you do know, same faults, same everything.

Not all marketing people are writers, but all writers must learn to be marketers.

For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Afraid to Die Loveless Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen.

I think luck gets you on to the stage. But it has nothing to do with keeping you there.

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

We can create as magnificent an environment as we like, but unless we change the heart it's all a waste of time.

Alfie was the first time I was above the title; the first time I became a star in America.

I think great art is always ambiguous and can't be pinned down.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.