Sometimes a thing needed opening before closure was found.

Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way.

Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.

It was the hubris of each generation to think this anew, to think that their time was special, that all things would come to an end with them.

Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.

It’s easy to forgo distractions and to not accumulate things when you have a larger goal on the horizon.

I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.

Heroes didn't win. The heroes were whoever happened to win. History told their story -- the dead didn't say a word. All of it was bullshit.

"What we control," Juliette said, "is our actions once fate puts us there."

My life is too tight, he wanted to say. My skin is too tight. The walls are too tight.

There were certain things, learned so young and remembered so deep that they felt like little stones in the center of her mind.

True leaders understand that leadership is not about them but about those they serve. It is not about exalting themselves but about lifting others up.

Business is about belonging which means inclusion is the new black.

The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths.

I grew up in Orange County, California, all over the beaches of San Clemente and that area.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

I can be an incredibly fabulous person, and I don't have to be in the highest heels, the tallest wig, the skimpiest outfit.

Love is wonderful to have. True love is hard to find.

Love and dignity do not dwell together.

A person who knows how to laugh at himself will never ceased to be amused.

To the elitist hedonist, life is the avoidance of boredom and routine.