Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

I don't believe in miracles, but if the need is great, a girl might make her own miracle.

The people you save won't celebrate you. They'll gather the wood and cheer while you burn.

Like a soldier back from battle you fill my vision. You're a flood, a baptism I'd forgotten, and the force of you leaves me breathless.

The fuzzy boundary lines between different readership ages have always puzzled me, so these days I just write what comes, and assume I can fix the mess later with an editor's help.

And what rules of economy dictate that a boy without a foot is more whole than a girl without a tongue?

I nod. Young love is not always forever. I know.

It's a cold world when no one will touch you.

I have to trust that if a story is strong, it can find its readership, and good editors can steer me well.

A miracle that can never be: your face, your hands, pledged to me.

I always want readers to lose themselves completely in a story and feel something, whatever the book invites them to feel. That experience is the best takeaway any book can offer.

Occupy your thoughts with purpose and you will be so busy pursuing a meaningful future there will be no time for doubt, chaos and disappointment.

Agile does not mean laissez-faire, flexibility and freedom are based on the well-defined principles.

Dark night of the soul, ” said Jesus, “Happens to everybody sooner or later.

I got into the situation where I was extreme right. It turned out that my mother is Jewish, my grandmother is Jewish. I am Jewish. So I can't hate Jewish people.

The greatest attribute of Heaven is mercy.

People walking? Karma walking ... Buddha nature walking..!

Reality is the only place you can deal from. If you're still worrying about the way things should be, you haven't even approached the starting line.

I believe if two people want to commit to each other, God bless 'em.

God-forsaken is beautiful, too.

What you BECOME on earth matters far more than what you DO. You're taking your character to heaven, not your career.