I love the opportunity to just let my imagination run riot! Non-fiction can be very restrictive.

Don't see a thing working-see it finished!

I enjoy research as much as writing so I try to make my stories as fact-based as possible, which I think helps them seem more authentic.

I enjoy creating and developing characters, as well as situations. But I have always had more ideas than I can ever put down on paper and fantasy allows me to include a lot of what I feel.

Good conduct arises out of good doctrine.

Feeding a lion will not prevent it from feeding on you.

In 2010, I suggested that if you are a good Muslim with a good conscience, go and look for a better God, and I think that was juvenile of me.

As Donald Trump continues to dominate the 2016 field, the Republican establishment's low-grade anxiety is becoming an all-out panic

Women slave for their hair! It's all about how we compare ourselves to other women, how we size ourselves up.

People think they have the right to judge everything that I do.

If people would just look at the paintings, I don't think they would have any trouble enjoying them. It's like looking at a bed of flowers, you don't tear your hair out over what it means.

The door snicked shut.

Clearly, love is love, between a man and a woman, a woman and a man, a woman and a woman and a man and a man.

But surely to tell these tall tales and others like them would be to spread the myth, the wicked lie, that the past is always tense and the future, perfect.