I decided to write short stories because they got rejected quicker.

Breakfast was only worth having when somebody else made it for you.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

I love writing and do not know why it is considered such a difficult, agonizing profession.

My favorite book is always the one I'm working on at the moment

I wrote eight full-length adult novels in my twenties. None of them were published

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published

in Los Angeles ... was the thinking-est crowd on earth: how to get ahead, how to mold a better body, how to have a better relationship, how to score, earn, fight, win, get published, be a star.

Sometimes the things that happen can be changed. Sometimes they cannot. Which time is this?

If love is great, then it is worth fighting for.

I see the potential for a new world being born in front of me and all around me, and I feel the only way to bring that potential into being is to know myself.

I got 99 Problems but Mitt ain't one.

Is this a private fight, or can anyone join?

My thesis is that morality exists outside the human mind in the sense of being not just a trait of individual humans, but a human trait; that is, a human universal.

These gentlemen are the moral equivalents of America's founding fathers.

Not all nine-fingered girls have hatchets, she said in Tradertalk. Some of us just tried to have a conversation with a snapping turtle. (Sandry to Daja, referring to her conversation with Tris.)

You reach your audience at the moment when you really have something to say - that is, when you're not just delivering a performance.

Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief.