I'm about to start something new. I'm waiting to be whelmed. The whelming as you start something new is quite something.

A good novel doesn't just transcend the boundaries of its target market - it knows nothing about target markets.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

If you look at the world one way, it takes from you - it's a thief of time, energy, creative mojo. But if you look at the world another way, it gives you an endless supply of motivation.

Omission is a sin only if, in the process of deceiving, you forget the truth. Lying is a sin only if, in the process, the lie becomes the only truth.

The intricacy of plotting a thriller is akin to writing formal poetry.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

I prefer a cluttered workspace.

I want women writers to write boldly, wildly, deeply. I want them to feel really liberated to tell the brutal truth, however they see that truth and are moved to tell it.

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

Death by hanging... well, in view of the whole situation, I never expected anything different. It's all right.

After being in the creative, hermetic state I have been in, coming out has been painful, but it is getting easier.

The human heart was not designed to beat outside the human body and yet, each child represented just that - a parent’s heart bared, beating forever outside its chest.

Nature always resists the artist at the beginning.

Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

If she and Sam ever had kids, they'd be gluten-intolerant out of self-defence.

A person is bound to work in obedience to and in conformity to that person's own nature.

I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.

A woman who loves her husband is merely paying her bills. A woman who loves her lover gives alms to the poor.

In the U.S., HBO is a very aggressive service.