There are many more ways to be attractive than to be beautiful.

Probably careful plotting reflects my personality. I am meticulous by nature. I can't imagine speed-writing anything that happens to pop into my head.

I love sports, as all Bostonians seem to. I love books and movies, as all writers seem to.

The interior of a teenager’s mind is an endless war between Stupid and Clever.

Predisposition is not predestination.

An emotion is a thought, yes, an idea, but it is also a sensation, an ache in your body. Desire, love, hate, fear, repulsion - you feel these things in your muscle and bones, not just in your mind.

no one worth knowing can be quite known, no one worth possessing can be quite possessed

You know, being confident isn't the same as being right.

We move through time like a man in a rowboat, looking back even as we move forward.

Good stories are driven by conflict, tension, and high stakes.

You can write a great book and be ignored. Literary history is full of classics that were under-appreciated in their own time.

Life in all its brevity deserved to be lived, for the right reasons. Belonging Places.

Is it possible to love forever, she asked. Don't you know what forever means? It means now, he answered. Oh then we are in love forever.

The only justification in the use of force is to reduce the amount of force necessary to be used.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

Most every day — if not every day — for the rest of your life, you will be reminded or think of this night. And I want to thank you in advance right now for the great memories it’s going to be.

My work seen in its totality is a statement about the integration of the contemporary artist into an industrial society.

Primes are the atoms of the arithmetic - the hydrogen and oxygen of the world of numbers

I have great ambitions for when I get out of government. I will watch a broader range of stuff.

Men have the illusion of having a duty to make the world spin properly, which is precisely what makes it wobble.

The word abbreviation sure is long for what it means.