'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

You bring your own weather to the picnic.

The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.

Sometimes the loudest cries for help are silent.

it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

I am a tender-hearted person, and I feel everything to the ninth degree.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

But you can only lie about who you are for so long without going crazy.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

LOA is simply figuring out for yourself what will generate the positive feelings of having it NOW.

If you believe in a dream and have the courage to try, anything is possible

In whatever name or form they are offered, all these flowers are laid at God's feet, for He is the one Lord of all, the one Soul of all souls.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.