I encourage people to read by encouraging them to read whatever they want.

I love Christmas! I'm not religious, but I love the trappings of the season. I love the decorations, and the music, and Santa, and the festive food, and the cinnamon- and vanilla-infused aromas.

Actually, the first thing I do is choose the antique that will be featured in each book. I try to find unusual objects with great stories. I am fascinated by the stories.

The trick is to get people to read anything, to engender the love of reading. Once you can read, you can teach yourself anything. Librarians are key, I think. They hold the power to empower.

While the cast of characters stays the same, I always try to add in new information so readers get to know the people they care about better with each story.

While I hear from readers all the time that they love learning new things, I never want to do an "info-dump." Boring! I try to include enticing details and skip all the rest.

Only when we start to distinguish reality from fantasy that we can humbly, with eyes wide open, forge loving and sustainable connections with others.

I don't like the showy nationalism - a tattoo, wrapping yourself in a flag - that doesn't matter to me. The way to show your patriotism and commitment is to go and support or play for your team.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Science still won't explain the mysterious nature of love and despair.

You don't always have to have the ending, but you want to have a satisfactory conclusion.

Once you've grown to accept something and it becomes part of the system you've inherited, you don't even notice it any longer.

Ooh baby, baby, it's a wild world, it's hard just to get by upon a smile.

Burberry is now as much a media-content company as we are a design company...

The guy that designed girls' volleyball uniforms definitely never had daughters.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.