I do not cook. However, if I did, I'd cook all Italian food, all the time.

Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.

It takes less courage to criticize the decisions of others than to stand by your own.

To engage people in culture we must remember that holiness is separation from sin, not separation from sinners.

I try really hard to cultivate the pure love of reading, to make time for it, because it would be really sad to still be a writer without remembering why, on some visceral, emotional level.

I never wish to be easily defined.

Talent is a flame, but genius is a fire.

From the first time we met, we knew everything that mattered about each other, didn't we? We just knew. I guess that's what best friends are: parts of each other.

I feel guilty about smoking way too much - and I have a bit of an addiction to chocolate milk shakes, which is not good.

There is no wish more natural than the wish to know.

Whenever you hear a politician carry on about what a mess the schools are, be aware that you are looking at the culprit.