“We fiction writers are a brazen lot, are we not? For we, in our passion, embrace just enough truth to consecrate our delicately contrived lies.”

“To tell you the truth. I am a wild and passionate novelist. I am therefore easily given over to telling wild and passionate lies.”

“Some of us are not meant for greatness. We are meant for something greater.”

“Passion should burn hot, or what good is it to anyone?”

“Just as hate can follow you through your life, love can lead you.”

“If you are not in charge of your life, who is?”

“If you believe that goodness lives on forever, then you might also believe that death is but temporary.”