Trusting someone was like holding a little water in your cupped hands - it was so easy to spill the water, and you could never get it back.

I started writing stories in my spare time.

We all now tell stories by cutting from one dramatic scene to the next, whereas Victorian novelists felt free to write long passages of undramatic summary.

One of the hardest things for me, now that I'm famous, is finding people who can read my stuff and give me an honest critique.

I could fall for you in a heartbeat

He had been granted his life's wish-but conditionally.

We’re all good when it suits us, he used to say: that doesn’t count. It’s when you want so badly to do something wrong—when you’re about to make a fortune from a dishonest deal, or kiss the lovely lips of your neighbor’s wife, or tell a lie to get yourself out of terrible trouble—that’s when you need the rules. Your integrity is like a sword, he would say: you shouldn’t wave it until you’re about to put it to the test.