A first kiss is the demarcation line: the same information that a moment ago felt private, all of a suddens seems unfair to withhold. And with that exchange came more.

No use crying over spilled milk.

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

I can't say why some memories float and other sink.

Suddenly it all seemed luminously clear. Love had very little to do with fear and emotional sabotage; love had to do with trust.

Passion - eventually it cools.

It may be possible to forget our past but our past is not going to forget us.

I had fallen out of my secure world, precipitated beyond the territories I had only begun to control so skillfully. What a foolish step to take. What an insane move to make.

Jealousy is a disease, it's like a poison.

It would drive me crazy to be a guest in my own house.

It's not easy to give up something you've had all your life.

so this crow comes and it starts quacking at us.

To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

What I need is a woman who is something, anything: either very beautiful or very kind or in the last resort very wicked; very witty or very stupid, but something.

I love being a performer. It's like a hole that never closes. It's something in you that never dies.

The wise person doesn't ask, "What have I achieved?" but rather, "What have I contributed?"

I do think Donald Trump has conservative instincts. I think he had anti-Obama instincts. I think he saw Obamacare, the Obama foreign policy, the Obama economic policies as harmful to America.

Home has always been one of the most important things. If I don't feel at home in my space, then I feel really unmoored.

I wish my readers took less of my time - about a third of my working time goes to them - but I love and need them all.

Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.