People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

I don't panic unless I have to. Wastes energy.

i'm going to marry you. i thought you'd like to know in case you wanted to buy a dress or something.

Even knowing the ending was sad, I wouldn't have deprived myself the beauty of the story.

People adjust their behavior to fit the society they live in. They integrate because they have to. But what they are on the inside doesn't change.

Be prepared to work hard to be a writer.

I have no personal knowledge of, or experience with, paramilitary hate groups, or heart transplantation, or escapees from maximum security prisons, or what it's like to be profoundly deaf. But I've written about all these topics, and the books became bestsellers. I figure that if something interests me, there's a reasonably good chance that it's going to interest the reader, too. As I approach my keyboard each day, I remind myself to have a good time - as good a time as one can have doing the hardest work there is.