“Charm is the ability to make someone else think that both of you are pretty wonderful.”

“Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head.”

“Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they angry? Good writing does not succeed or fail on the strength of its ability to persuade. It succeeds or fails on the strength of its ability to engage you, to make you think, to give you a glimpse into someone else's head—even if in the end you conclude that someone else's head is not a place you'd really like to be.”

“i think charm is the ability to be truly interested in other people”

“The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain.”

“When someone is stalking you because they think you are stalking them, it makes you wonder who really is the true stalker?”