Creating a novel means moving into the past, the hoped for, the imagined. It is an emotional journey, fraught at times with characters who don't always do or say what a writer wishes.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies? 'Sister Sonja often asked me, as though to understand the depth and breadth of human suffering would be enough to pull me outside of my own.

Who hasn't walked through a life of small tragedies?

I know now that what is tragic isn’t the moment. It is the memory.

Maybe this is how it happened first for everyone —adults promising us their own failed future.

I was eleven, the idea of two identical digits in my age still new and spectacular and heartbreaking. The girls must have felt this. They must have known. Where had ten, nine, eight, and seven gone?

I knew I was lost inside the world, watching it and trying to understand why too often I felt like I was standing just beyond the frame—of everything.

I’m mistaken….for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.

...men are monsters all, and something in them wants to force others to see the world the same way they see it.

Every time we watch over one another, godlike qualities of love, patience, kindness, generosity, and spiritual commitment fill the souls of those we visit and enlarge our souls as well.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

All I try to do in the press is to be honest about something that I really care about.

People come from all over the world to see this little place they've seen in movies and read about in history books: Soho.

Entertainment and art have power. Our culture is molded more so by entertainment than any other influence.

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.

I really spend as long as I can sketching everything out and working on the structure before I sit down to type out scenes.