I've always operated with a great deal of self-doubt. Every time I start a new book it's like, well, this one will destroy the career and I have to overcome that feeling especially in the first hundred pages of the book.

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.

Lies hurt people; imagination makes life more fun.

I try not to spend too much time on partisan politics. Life's too short for that. I don't really believe that there have been many human problems solved by politics.

These days, people spent too much time striving to understand their feelings - and then ended up with none that were genuine.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him