Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

If someone loves you for what you can do then it's flattering, but why do you love them? If someone loves you for who you are then they have to know you, which means you have to know them.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability to feel empathy for people we've never met, living lives we couldn't possibly experience for ourselves, because the book puts us inside the character's skin.

I know where I'm going. And if I don't know where I'm going, I don't tend to get anywhere.

Love was action. It came to you. It was not a choice.

I craft everything in the beginning. I know where the characters are going before I start writing the book.