“You cannot write your character until you know how he or she thinks, until you know what their philosophy is in the world that they occupy.”

“What I've learned about writing is that sometimes less is more, while often more is grander. And both are true.”

“She had an ability to love that went beyond my ability to grasp the slightest concept of what love was.”

“If you want romance, fuck a journalist.”

“That's the thing with keeping up appearances, Rose; people will do anything to get one and anything to keep one.”

“I had never seen the end of day and the beginning of the night greet each other. We were caught in the loveliness between the two. A House Like a Lotus”

“Every yesterday we lose ourselves so that we can find ourselves in tomorrow.”

“Love is not love which alters when it alterations finds. Sonnet 116”

“What courage basically comes down to as human beings is to protect the lives of others, to go out of your way to save others. When a baby comes out of its mother and it moves and breathes and its a...”