I completed my first novel when I was 19 years old.

Some things in life are worth waiting for.

If you see the magic in a fairy tale, you can face the future.

Lust is temporary, romance can be nice, but love is the most important thing of all. Because without love, lust and romance will always be short-lived.

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.

I am endlessly busy, bringing up five young kids, and trying to keep up with the three older ones. I still spend most of my life driving car pools.

Sometimes, if you aren't sure about something, you just have to jump off the bridge and grow your wings on the way down.

We are always better than before when those we love inflict wounds upon us.

Sing Me no songs tell me no tales cry me no tears, but remember me kindly.

I did it at night because I loved it. I never did it to make money, as a job. I just did it because I had to.

Things work out the way they're meant to

Historically, philosophy does not have an impressive track record of answering questions about natural world in a decisive manner.

You can never live in the past. You always live in the tiny gap between the present and the future.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.

When we as human beings, are trusted with life, but lack the value thereof, we are only left with one thing – abuse!

Advice is like snow the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon and the deeper it sinks into the mind.

To her friends said the Bright one in chatter, "I have learned something new about matter: My speed was so great, Much increased was my weight, Yet I failed to become any fatter!"

If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

A hobby is only fun if you don't have time to do it.

It takes isolation and solitude for me to write.

All defense secretaries in wartime have, needless to say, made misjudgments.