He cried like a jockey who'd just lost the Kentucky Derby by a few nostril hairs.

Flight of my mind rises beneath the seagull’s wings …then ocean is my motherland I feel.

There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.

We play phone tag, back and forth, the kind of tag where it's clear we're avoiding each other, where no one wants to be touched, tagged, you're it

Seek within, for the answer cannot be found without.

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written

My observation is China is thinking more as a global player than regionally, in both politics and economics.

Pain only hurts when you are looking for a reason to quit. You don't feel a thing when you know you can still win.

Few sensible authors are happy discussing the creative process--it is, after all, black magic.

The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.