There is no one truth. There’s only what happened, based on how you perceive it.

It was possible that a miracle was not something that happened to you, but rather something that didn’t.

Risk always looks different when you're beating the system than when you've been beaten.

A lie, as you probably know, has a taste all its own. Blocky and bitter and never quite right, like when you pop a piece of fancy chocolate into your mouth expecting toffee filling and you get lemon zest instead.

I was one of the first authors to have an active website. I'm totally obsessed with technology. I'm always looking for ways to connect with my readers. I answer all my fan mail.

Remember when you were a little kid and you'd fall asleep in the car? And someone would carry you out and put you into bed, so that when you woke up in the morning, you knew automatically you were home again? That's what I think it's like to die.

History isn't about dates and places and wars. It's about the people who fill the spaces between them.