I think you're doing better than you were the last time we saw you. You're growing a new heart, for a start.

The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are...so make up your own rules.

He couldn’t see why people made such a fuss about people eating their silly old fruit anyway, but life would be a lot less fun if they didn’t. And there was never an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.

London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

I learned to write by writing.

It's certainly not too late to change to the winning side. But you know, you also have the freedom to stay just where you are. That's what it means to be an American. That's the miracle of America. Freedom to believe means the freedom to believe the wrong thing, after all. Just as freedom of speech gives you the right to stay silent.

I loved the fact that I was suddenly no longer dependent on whether a store took out an ad in the right place, or on the word on the street.