The most lies we will ever tell in our lives will be to ourselves.

Read the right books and we can be as wild and worry-free as we've ever wanted to be. No law can stop us reading.

One day, I decided I was going to write books forever.

You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others.

The fear of not being remembered is a dangerous thing.

I’m proud to be a writer. I’m doing the job all my heroes did.

One man’s fight is another man’s freedom.

Reality was dawning on him and he hated reality. If you were him, so would you.

No matter what the good boys tell you, criminality is not a level playing field.

Katie soon learned there was a problem with hope.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

Moving my body ignites my bliss. I say yes to movement!

Our mind has its own ideal time, which is no other but the consciousness of the progressive development of our beings.

My cell phone is my best friend. It's my lifeline to the outside world.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.

What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.

Life should be lived so vividly and so intensely that thoughts of another life, or of a longer life, are not necessary.

I take almost no notes when I write. I have one notebook - this old green leather notebook that my dad gave me a decade ago.

One of the great undiscovered joys of life comes from doing everything one attempts to the best of one's ability. The smallest task, well done, becomes a miracle of achievement.

I really like science because it seems to be that place where you get the big picture, everything connects.