You could be adding gasoline to a roaring fire. We understand that. But this is who we are.
If everybody was so reverent of the institute of marriage, how did all the adultery get committed?
Always mind the distance between your dreams and your reality.
It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.
It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.
We are bound by the secrets we share.
I don't write books for people to be friends with the characters. If you want to find friends, go to a cocktail party.
I'm strictly a one-project-at-a-time kind of guy. If I came up with a compelling idea for a different book while working on a project, I'd probably abandon the first project and go with the new idea.
When you admire the light, remember to give the darkness its due as well, because without it, the beauty of the light will disappear!
You need to be real enough to be believable, but you don't necessarily have to be real enough to be real. There is a distinction.
For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.