Laugh and the world laughs with you.Fart and you're on your own.

Drafting is like painting the Golden Gate Bridge.The closer you get to the end, the more you start to worry about the beginning.

Sometimes the body gets out of bed an hour before the brain.

Giving up drinking for life is easy.I've done it loads of times.

You only get one life.Too bad you already made a mess of it.

If I could do it all again, I would start three hundred years ago, and write twice as fast.

If I could split myself into five people, I would still be behind on my writing schedule. I see now why James Patterson cloned himself so many times.

Failure is something you experience on your way to success - unless you're a skydiver.

If you were given the chance to be reborn after your death, buy you could only come back as a squirrel, would you complain?

Rachel Henson stood facing him, immaculate in her uniform and ready for duty as always. She looked as though she had spent her whole life preparing for this very moment - she always did.

Don't look up at the mountain. Keep your head down, and take the next step.

The greatest power is the power of pray.

We are our own worst enemy.

He who understands humanity seeks solitude

I'm only a four-dimensional creature. Haven't got a clue how to visualise infinity. Even Einstein hadn't. I know because I asked him

People just wanna see someone talking about themselves constantly. I'm not interested in that.

Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury.

Platonic England, house of solitudes, rests in its laurels and its injured stone

I am an employment hyena. I am happy to make a meal of what the lions leave behind.

These were people... who built redwood decks on their mobile homes and have no idea that smart-aleck Yankees think that is somehow funny. People of the pines. My people.

My battles with addiction definitely shaped how I am now. They really made me deeply appreciate human contact. And the value of friends and family, how precious that is.