Among writers, if you don't have a therapist, it's like saying you don't keep a journal or use the thesaurus. It's a natural accompaniment.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

We all make mistakes, the danger lies in letting those mistakes make us. Make us believe we can't put things right. Make us think there's no hope. Make us give up.

When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.

Recognising our own mistakes helps us to empathise non-judgementally with others and helps enable us to understand their issues.

If freedom isn't free and people's rights are being violated and suppressed, then Governments have NO need to exist.

If you want someone to tell you what to think..." "You will never be short of people willing to do so.

Nowadays, it's good to eat the booty like groceries, but back then, going down on a woman was sort of "Ew."

At the end of the day, we're defined by our predicament, not by the sides of town.

There's something deeply satisfying when it succeeds, but I'm not going to do another book just to put my name on something and make some money if it's not something I deeply care about.

I think one of the biggest curses in the U.S. is that we have only two political parties.

You shouldn't be able to be alive and you are. You want to trade?