The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.

If you want to be happy for life, love what you do.

When someone is mean to me, I just make them a victim in my next book.

The flame of inspiration needs to be encouraged. Put a glass around that small candle and protect it from discouragement or ridicule.

Writing is storytelling. No matter how you slice it, you're saying, 'Once upon a time.' That's what writing is all about.

Happines is like mercury. Hard to hold, and when we drop it, it shatters into a million pieces. Maybe the bravest of all are those who have the courage to reach for it again.

live your life as if you may lose everything.

Approach your lives as if they were novels, with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs.

The first four months of writing the book, my mental image is scratching with my hands through granite. My other image is pushing a train up the mountain, and it's icy, and I'm in bare feet.

A library is a path to the future--find yours there.

Funny, when you finally faced reality, it was amazing how clearly you could see things.

Reading as an adult, for pleasure, is infinitely better than reading the stuff assigned to you back in school. You get to choose what you want to read.

Kabul fell prey to men who looked like they had tumbled out of their mothers with Kalashnikov in hand...

Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.

World Screen is a great resource-the perfect one-stop guide to what matters most in global entertainment.

Jesus was a management expert too.

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

The stock market is never obvious. It is designed to fool most of the people, most of the time.

The perennial gale of creative destruction

A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.

It's sad to think that we've gotten to this, that we actually have to think about how to go about finding a man. But what's even sadder is that some men make you feel guilty for looking.