Hate generalizes; love is particular.

We were not human beings going through spiritual experiences; we were spiritual beings going through human experiences, in order to grow.

If we are all made of God, it is our friends who remind us. We pass the gift of God to them. They pass it back to us when we need it most.

Sex is God's joke on the human race ... if we didn't have sex to make us ridiculous, She would have had to think up something else instead.

I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

Every time I catch myself saying, "Oh no, you shouldn't try that," I think, "Yes, I should."

The future is merely a shadow which blocks out the joys of the present and emphasizes the miseries of the past.