Eventually the writing takes time. What I want to do is get the story down and I want to know what happens as I write my way into the knowledge of the story.

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Dreams are the touchstones of our characters.

I was haunting you, for so long, that I forgot that I became a ghost too.

The true source of happiness is within each of us.

No more tomorrows. Today is the day.

America has become amnesiac - a country in which forms of historical, political, and moral forgetting are not only willfully practiced but celebrated.

if the way ahead is not clear, time is often the best editor of one's intentions.

I don't know whether John Roberts has a twin, perhaps a sister or, uh, someone with a Hispanic last name

In many ways doth the full heart reveal The presence of the love it would conceal.

I have never thought of a full-fledged career in Bollywood because boxing has never left my mind. But you never know.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.