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.

Stay low, stay quiet, keep it simple, don't expect too much, enjoy what you have.

Writing isn't a source of pain. It's psychic chemotherapy. It reduces your psychological tumors and relieves your pain.

How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight of butterflies, crimson sunsets, a kiss, and life.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

Pain can be endured and defeated only if it is embraced. Denied or feared, it grows.