God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn't matter how "real" your story is, or how "made up": what matters is its necessity.

We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.

I have no place left to live but in my own heart.

The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.

I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.

There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.

Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.

Try to be accurate about stuff.

In India everything has a use and a value.

Yep, I'm a geek. Ever since I got the Millennium Falcon for Christmas in 1978. And I still have it, in perfect condition, just without the box... but I still play with it!

Be skeptical of concepts that divorce war from its political nature, particularly those that promise fast, cheap victory through technology.

It drives me nuts how I rely on my wife for everything. I can't imagine a day without her!

Women should work with local and state leaders and be vocal about ensuring there's more diversity and more women involved.

So what starts is ad hoc and you never know where it's going to lead, so it's important to keep an open mind about those things.

You wanna know how good bacon is? To improve other food, they wrap it in bacon.

We're also more affected by aspirational signals in an offline world where it is more difficult to "hide" and thus indirectly increases the influence from others.

I'm very particular who I work with. I'm not interested in portraying women with a cliched, generic look. I'm interested in a model who I can take a portrait of.

It must be that to govern a nation you need a specific talent and that this may very well exist without general ability.