Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.

Leave no stone unturned. Deeply explore the beauty of your life.

I felt very much like a hooker who had just been told she was a lady of the evening.

The Lord of Dreams learns that one must change or die, and makes his decision

The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

Have you ever spent days and days and days making up flavors of ice cream that no one's ever eaten before? Like chicken and telepone ice cream? Green mouse ice cream was the worst. I didn't like that at all.

I loved writing a book in which, in some ways, it's very, very classical, and in some ways I'm breaking lots of rules about what you can do and what you can't do.