Confession: I don't want to be one of my characters. I'm mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

Without love, life was nothing but endless tasks and battles.

Ya were going to turn me into a rat? Had I known that I wouldn’t have tried to turn ya into a snake.

Do not pay attention to my cousins. Every family needs a couple idiots and we keep them around for entertainment.

A stóirín, ya are a handful of trouble, but I kind of like it.

He kissed the corner of her lips before whispering by her ear, “And that was just my hand, love.

He’s not wearing…” Charlotte began.“I know. He doesn’t, ” Lydia answered.

I think people need hope when times are tough. I think they also need escape and adventure and fantasy. Books are like cheap mini vacations.

I wish life were a fiction novel. Then everyone would have to do what I say.

I would make a HORRIBLE outlaw. I can plan the crime perfectly, but I'd also need to plan the outcomes to make it work.

As an author I'm in my head all day and I worry that I lose touch with reality. But then my dog pees on my shoe and I know I've found it again.

Oh, the fools, like a lot of good little schoolboys, scared to death of anything they've been taught is wrong!

Where you go, I go, What you see, I see, I know I'd never be me without the security, Are your loving arms keeping me from harm Put your hands in my hand & we'll stand.

We're not going to meddle in the internal life of other peoples and other governments, because we don't want them meddling in ours.

I'm getting a little fed up with hearing about, oh, civilian casualties. I think we ought to nuke North Korea right now just to give the rest of the world a warning.

Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.

My friends that are snobs think its cool I did a movie with Albert Brooks.

True love can fear no one.

It's the excitement of being on the frontier.

One runs a business ultimately to do well so you can do good for everyone.