I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Some one dear to one can be loved with human love

Good and bad aren't absolutes. They are beliefs, judgements, ideas based on limited knowledge as well as on the inclinations of our minds.

There are no words that can describe the euphoria you feel when your baby recognizes you for the first time and smiles.

Politics and ethics belong to different worlds.

There are pieces that in the history of music that also make me cry. I'm not ashamed to cry.

Yes, we who are full to the gorge with misery should look well around, doubting everything seen, done, spoken, precisely because we have a word for it, and not its alchemy

Happiness is love, nothing else. A man who is capable of love is happy.

That's one of my greatest strengths. I'm a Scorpio rising - we're very decisive. I'm very good at cutting things off that don't feel right.

My responsibility to God is to live. That's the gift he gave me. What I do with it is up to me.

It is painful to talk about it, but even with its 110,000 elite soldiers, the Soviet Union never managed to gain control over the entire Afghan territory.