You can't write well what you don't read for pleasure. If it doesn't entertain you, it's not going to entertain anyone else.

Tom: If you love with kindness, even when you can't love with permanence, you'll deserve the one who's worthy along that path for you.

You bring the color and the life. It's a lucky man who is offered that color and life, and a wise one who values it.

My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

I've wanted to be with you when I didn't have the right to.