I try to stay on top of my game physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

Failure assumes the world is black and white - no gray. I've come to find, it's all gray.

I have great friends. That's key for me for: surrounding myself with people who are supportive and kind.

I don't buy into the word "failure." I used to but not anymore. Trying not to fail is the opposite of art.

It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.

Each of us have a choice to make. Will we choose to achieve our dreams or will we choose to allow others to use us to achieve their dreams.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Suffering does not befall him who is without attachment to names and forms.

Perfect servants would be the worst of all for certain masters, whose happiness consists in finding fault with them.

You shouldn't have to justify your work.

I'd give dollar for indefinite article.

I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

The mass-market paperback, for one, is too expensive.