All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.

Sometimes I pose, but sometimes I pose as posing.

Pride is concerned with who is right. Humility is concerned with what is right.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

The greatest test of life is obedience to God.

The more we express our gratitude to God for our blessings, the more he will bring to our mind other blessings. The more we are aware of to be grateful for, the happier we become.

Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.

I am called a gold digger all the time. I don't care. There is nothing you can do about what other people say.

I love jeans, T-shirts, boots, and tennis shoes.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

A lot of sequins for New Year's! Red, green, white - I fail at all of that because I'm always in black. But for Christmas, I do love wearing cute dresses with tights and a pair of boots.

Possibility is a positive act.

Love is not running away or giving up, it is standing and fighting for every moment.

The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.

Dave Rudabaugh is an ignorant scoundrel! I disapprove of his very existence. I considered ending it myself on several occasions but self-control got the better of me.

It is of unspeakable advantage to possess our minds with an habitual good intention, and to aim all our thoughts, words, and actions at some laudable end.

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Usually writer's block arises when something is wrong internally with the story.

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Ignorance is the worst form of slavery. (Paraphrased)