My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything.

Nothing is mysterious, no human relation. Except love.

Thinking, writing are ultimately questions of stamina.

Talking like touching. Writing like punching somebody.

When comedy fails, seriousness begins to leak back in.

I still live in the same place I've lived all my life.

My idea of the ideal sex education site doesn't exist.

Because when he sings...even the birds stop to listen.

As long as you can find yourself, you’ll never starve.

In other words, I step out of line and we're all dead.

No wonder I won the Games. NO decent person ever does.

Oh, Peeta, Don't make me sorry I restarted your heart.

I think you'd be pretty in any color."-Posy to Octavia

Everything is happening too fast for me to process it.

It's lovely. If only you could frost someone to death.

Gallantry thrives most in the atmosphere of the court.

He was my drug, and I had no desire to kick the habit.

What is it with you, sex, and modes of transportation?

When a story captures me, it comes quickly and easily.

Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention.

Does anyone in this land act like they're supposed to?

I met the oddest little fellow today, Alan of Trebond.

If you do not have boundaries, you do not have a path.

I am too old to think that numbers are creating change

Political confusion starts with terminology confusion.

I am much more interested in the process than results.

There is magic in sincere forgiveness - magic to heal.

All beauty of this world is wet with the dew of tears.

Morals: They're nothing but a coded survival instinct!

What, nephew, said the king, is the wind in that door?

The God of peace is never glorified by human violence.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.

If you compulsively pun you are called a paronomasiac.

In England people are very proud of being very stupid.

A natural New Yorker is a native of the present tense.

the suppression of war is not the equivalent of peace.

If beauty is only skin deep, look really, really hard.

The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman.

For we think back through our mothers if we are women.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

To let oneself be carried on passively is unthinkable.

Ice-cream is exquisite - what a pity it isn't illegal.

If we believe absurdities, we shall commit atrocities.

It is not enough to conquer; one must learn to seduce.

You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation.

Know that the secret of the arts is to correct nature.

Very often, say what you will, a knave is only a fool.

I like people who take responsibility for their lives.

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