Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.

Believe you know all the answers, and you know all the answers. Believe you're a master, and you are.

The one thing we fear most is the one thing that is not possible: We cannot die, we cannot be destroyed.

When I'm writing it's as if I'm the observer. It's as if that computer screen there -it used to be the typewriter - just kind of dissolves and there's this whirling tunnel of mist and there's a kind of proscenium arch, and then there are my characters, and they say what they say, and I laugh sometimes in surprise at what they say.

Individuals somehow are led to find my books at times that are important to them. The mail that I get very, very often will say, "I was at a difficult time in my life, and someone gave me a copy."

The gull sees farthest who flies highest