I don't know what takes more courage: surviving a lifelong endurance test because you once made a promise or breaking free, disrupting all your world.

He was wondering if there was some cryptic, cultish mark on his door that told all the crazy people he'd have trouble saying no.

It is not how much you love someone, but who you are when you are with him.

When I'm working on something, I proceed as if no one else will ever read it.

There's surprisingly little difference between writing from a male angle and from a female angle, but I feel more restricted in my language when I'm writing as a male character because males tend to sound less emotionally expressive than females.

I've always thought sleep was a wonderful invention. Not that being awake isn't nice too, of course. But when I get up in the morning, I think, boy, only fourteen more hours and I can be back to sleep again ... And I never dream, because it distracts my mind from pure sleeping.

But I don't think people take bad advice. They've got intuition too, you know. In fact I'd be surprised if they take any advice at all.