When it comes to locations, I'm one of those crazy authors who has to see it, touch it, taste it, before I trust myself to recreate it for my readers. Having said that, visiting a locked-down pediatric psych ward was the most intimidating research I've ever done - and I've visited maximum security prisons, shooting galleries, bone collections, etc.

I don't let it bother me too much if someone doesn't like me. I just figure there's no accounting for taste. It's not me, it's my acting. It's like if someone doesn't like someone's food, they just don't like my acting.

Anna Chlumsky

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Nathaniel Emmons

It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Every goal, every action, every thought, every feeling one experiences, whether it be consciously or unconsciously known, is an attempt to increase one's level of peace of mind.

Sidney Madwed

Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.

Joineriana

God, that checkroom of our dreams.

Jean Rostand

It is not necessary to hope in order to undertake, nor to succeed in order to persevere.

Charles The Bold

The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Find a way to get in the way.

John Lewis

My mom used to tell me stories at night, read books to me - and I read 'em over and over and over again. And you know what I learned from that? I went back and looked at everything - Why do I like reading the same stories over and over and over again? What, was I some kind of nincompoop? No - the narrative gave me connection with my mom.

Peter Guber

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

William James