Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?

The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you - it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

He had learned the worst lesson that life can teach - that it makes no sense.

You can no more make someone tell the truth than you can force someone to love you.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

The horror of being caged has lost its thrill.

Everybody else is working to change, persuade, tempt and control them. The best readers come to fiction to be free of all that noise.

I have a slogan I use when I get anxious writing, which happens quite a bit: ‘the ordeal is part of the commitment.’ It’s one of my mantras. It makes a lot of things doable.

When the whole world doesn't believe in God, it'll be a great place.

Because that is when you love somebody - when you see them being game in the face of the worst. Not courageous. Not heroic. Just game.

Inspiration is what keeps us well.

The shame of sins!

A Sufi is one who is not bound by anything nor does he bind anything

I was sixteen, and I honestly believed I was due a love story.

'Mallory, ' he used to say, 'When a woman who can break you in half tells you that you're hers, you nod and agree.'

The time is just right to take risks and tell stories the way we want to tell them.

Coal is our most abundant fossil fuel. (GE's) development efforts are to just end up making the plants more competitive on an economic basis by using these other coals.

My real big Internet claim to fame is the fact that I was first to jailbreak the iPhone.

The two of us could form a new kind of union; we could be free together.

Most people I know that have work that is very meaningful to them pay the price of having to work all the time.