I write what I'd like to read and just hope that, along the way, others might like to read them, too.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

Thought assists memory in enabling it to order the material it has assembled. So that in a systematically ordered memory every idea is individually followed by all conclusions it entails.

Our values define who we're. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let's go beyond lip service to defend our values...

I remember I used to come up to my teacher crying because I couldn't read. She would say: 'You can do this. You just don't want to do this.'

Long is the night to him who is awake; long is a mile to him who is tired; long is life to the foolish who do not know the true law.

The one who does not remember history is bound to live through it again

Now that I have lost you I cannot allow you to develop, you must be a photograph not a poem.

We look back to the most important moment in our history, and that becomes the dividing line between what we were and what we are now.

I always like to try to bring whatever I can to what is on the page, so I like to find as much dimension as I can, in each role.

If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.

The difference in the profit and loss is usually ... do not quit.