As he passed Alistair to depart the library, Bosque said, "I'm pleased you didn't limit your vision. Ambition is the fertile soil in which true power can be cultivated.

What man would have courage enough to believe he could win you? Bosque laughed. "You exude power. Men are small creatures, easily cowed by those who challenge their sense of self-importance.

I'm afraid my jealousy is a beast I find difficult to tame, " he said with a sigh.

We are refined like gold, with every adversity endured.

All great adventures start with an idea.

Love is always worth the risks, even when, especially when, it scares you.

Surprise keeps the reader awake. The only alternative is to continue saying what the reader is expecting. What fun is that?

I think fans cling to me because I'm a blue-collar guy in a blue-collar city.

As I write, snow is falling outside my Maine window, and indoors all around me half a hundred garden catalogues are in bloom.

The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment.

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

A woman is never sexier than when she is comfortable in her clothes.

I think I now understand why it is that the young are so very nostalgic. They have so little by way of personal history that they polish it up and make it shine like a treasured heirloom.