Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

I think I have become a better writer since having children. It improves creativity, particularly because once you have children it makes you realise the story isn’t about you.

Writing gets easier once you know your allies and banish your enemies.

It's the very awfulness of [murder] that makes reading about it feel so cozy.

Love built on pain-the kind that lasts: whatever you love can be taken away from us at any moment but the loss of what we love belongs to us forever.

We are taught we can redeem them, she said to me once. We are taught it as soon as we can read. We can turn the beast into a prince, if only we love him enough.

There's a certain sort of a man whose every charm lies in his predictability.

It must be every barrister's nightmare, something that finds him or her unprepared.

Everything is disproportionate in the middle of the night.

When you share your knowledge, you gain wisdom. Share as much as you can and as often as you can.

Intelligence arouses fear and respect, the lack of it keeps one on the narrow minded road of disrespect, stupidity and inferiority complex.

Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret

Corporate advertising is simply expensive lying dressed up as brainwashing

The idea is not to block every shot. The idea is to make your opponent believe that you might block every shot.

I don't enjoy doing nothing or sitting in my trailer watching ESPN.

My future starts when I wake up every morning.

Bob Dylan was uncomfortable being known as just a protest singer. He wanted to go back into himself and do what he wanted to do when he wanted to do it.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Pandering to the people who have supported this industry for years is a sure way for this industry to be dead in a few years.