As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

It's not just a sunset; it's a moonrise too.

I'll find you again. Even if it takes a hundred of those years.

If you have good friends, no matter how much life is sucking , they can make you laugh.

Remember, darkness does not always equate to evil, just as light does not always bring good.

Plus, according to my mother, memories change like people do, especially if there's enough alcohol involved-Aphrodite

Aphrodite makes us understand why women have drowned their babies.

Because you are the superhero fledgling. I’m just your more attractive sidekick. Oh, and the herd of nerds are your dorky minions.

Comfort is for the lazy and the ugly." Aphrodite

She frowned at him. "That sounds vaguely like a threat." "It's not vague and it's not a threat. It's clearly blackmail.

Battle scars from the war of good versus evil have a unique beauty all their own.

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

For the same reason a disease cannot be cured by more of the germ that caused it, the inflation and debt accumulation of the Obama years will not inflate our way out of it.

A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.

Nothing keeps longer than a middling fortune, and nothing melts away sooner than a large one.

Teach your children or your grandchildren Chinese. It is going to be the most important language of their lifetimes.

When you center life around yourself, not only do you miss out on God's best, but you rob other people of the joy and blessings that God wants to give them through you.

I am working on a dress sock line of funky, colorful, cool designs.

Sometimes there are painters or very famous artists who start to become artists after they are dead because an audience or a public know about their art after they die.

No matter what your decisions are, no matter what your votes are, if youre not playing by the rules, youre taking a big risk.

Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.