You work hard on a book and throw it out there and then it's beyond your control.

When two people are meant to be together, they will be together. It's fate.

Keeping up the appearance of having all your marbles is hard work, but important.

I stare at her for a long moment. I want to kiss her. I want to kiss her more than I've ever wanted anything in my life.

I look after those who look after me." He smacks his lips, stares at me, and adds, "I also look after those who don't." - Sara Gruen (Water for Elephants)

Life is the most spectacular show on earth.

The only thing that makes me crazier than writing is not writing.

When will people learn that just because you can make something doesn’t mean you should?

When I first submerged my feet into frigid water, they hurt so badly I yanked them out again. I persisted, dunking them for longer and longer periods, until the cold finally blistered.

I don't like outlining, because books are organic things. Sometimes a book doesn't want to be written in a certain way.

Don't want to get tipsy and break a hip.

Thanks to technology, the future generation will be able to see Sachin's recorded innings and will accept that our generation was most lucky.

Joy is not in things it is in us.

It's good to have plans and dreams, but don't be surprised if God brings you somewhere else.

We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations.

We face an essential need to reach a definition of terrorism that will enjoy wide international agreement, thus enabling international operations against terrorist organizations.

I am someone who will rise to an occasion like that. Other occasions can defeat me.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday.

Yes. That's exactly what I'm saying and I've been saying this for six months.

It's too presumptuous and naïve to think you can change society by a photograph or anything else... I equate that with propaganda; I think that's a lower rank of purpose.