Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.

Kids are fat because of lack of parenting.

I write everything many times over. All my thoughts are second thoughts.

I didn't drop out of school, I placed out of it. I took correspondence courses and ended up graduating early. I did everything I could to get the hell out of there.

Jealousy is always born with love, but does not die with it. In jealousy there is more of self-love than of love to another.

I never like to refer back to anything I've done when I'm working on a character, even if that character has the same occupation.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind

Something about this boat screamed, "I am a very popular model in the world's oil-bearing regions. I cost more than your soul!

Give a man a noble cause and he would fight to the death for what he believed in,but get the woman he loves to leave him and his once honourable principles would cease to be quite so important.

Men love their country, not because it is great, but because it is their own.

I told Leonard, in the immortal words of Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 2, 'I'm going on vacation. If I tell you where I'm going, then it won't be a vacation.'