I'm not a character in any of my books.

I suppose you think I'm very brazen. Or très fou. Or something.' Not at all.' She seemed disappointed. 'Yes, you do. Everybody does. I don't mind. It's useful.

The enemy was anyone who was someone he wanted to be or who had anything he wanted to have.

There is nobody in the world that you can't get if you really concentrate on it, if you really want them. You've got to want it to the exclusion of everything else.

[L]ove, having no geography, knows no boundaries.

I'm very scared, Buster. Yes, at last. Because it could go on forever. Not knowing what's yours until you've thrown it away.

It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.