Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.

I have advice for new writers, first of all, at any time in the history of publishing in my experience, there will be endless number people telling you that you can't do what you are trying to do. You won't succeed, there's something else you should be doing.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

There are thousands of proteins in the cells, some of them very large chains of molecules. And the cell doesn't function if one of those chains of molecules isn't there, and you start looking at the complexity of life and the mystery of life, and then start thinking about things like the twenty universal constants, that if any one of them from Plank's minimum to the mass of a proton, if one of them is the tiniest bit off, there would be no life or possibility of it in the universe.

In my personal life, I'm a comic novel. But then, so are we all, because we're human beings.

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation.