Even on the darkest night, my friend, life will have its way.

If you are writing any book about the end of the world, what you are really writing about is what's worth saving about it.

Behind every writer stands a very large bookshelf.

My inventing time is all done under the influence of aerobic exercise. Basically, I do all my thinking while I run.

I grew up during the Cold War, when everything seemed very tenuous. For many years, right up until the fall of the Berlin Wall, I had vivid nightmares of nuclear apocalypse.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

This ravishing world. This achingly bittersweet, ravishing world.

I have any number of completely dark obsessions and fascinations, and none of this was present in my profile or my growing profile as a writer.

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages.

My theory of characterization is basically this: Put some dirt on a hero, and put some sunshine on the villain, one brush stroke of beauty on the villain.

My rule has always been, write the next part of the book that you seem to know well. So I won't necessarily write chapter two after chapter one.

The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.

The more clearly a principle is understood by the intellect, the more inexcusable is the neglect to put it into practice.

The environment has become a political, polarizing issue.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

A nation' s strength ultimately consists in what it can do on its own, and not in what it can borrow from others.

Celebrity is hawking make-up, cars, everything; it's shifted.

Denise clung to the feel of his hands as she pushed at her panic. It's okay. You're safe...and this has got to be the ugliest couch ever.

The right to work is a slogan which should be accepted by every democracy.

I'd go and get really drunk somewhere ... in the street. Pass out somewhere and sleep in the gutter.

I never wanted to make it too easy for people to sum me up.