You don't know what love is until someone lives with you while you write a book.

Love doesn't mean anything if you're not willing to make a commitment, and you have to think not only about what you want, but about what he wants. Not just now, but in the future.

One more year and I will be closer to wherever I'm going.

When people don't have much money, they invest in emotions... when some people have lots of money, they invest in emotional fools !

Edinburgh is a comfortable puddle for a novelist.

I have a preference for rough architecture, real, inexpensive, unfinished.

I think there's something degrading about having a husband for a rival. It's humiliating if you fail and commonplace if you succeed.

It's always judged on funny first, then the facts, and the realism, and the points that you're trying to make.

So I'm running in the park on Saturday, in shorts, thinking this [warm weather] is great, but are we all gonna die? You know? I can't, I can't figure this out.

Just as the child must trust his mother, the white belt must believe in the good will of his instructor. There will be a time for questioning, but for now he must focus and train.

The scary truth is 96 percent of mutual funds fail to match the market, and the 4 percent that do, they're always changing.