I want to feel the rush of death, the high of utter nothingness, the fragility of my own mortality. Let it slip through my fingers like sand and when it's gone for good, I'll be none the wiser.

Of course we dance with our demons. Our angels are far too shy.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.

I love my iPad. I'll see television shows that I have missed and I'll download them through iTunes. If there is an older movie that I want to watch right away, I can download that movie and watch it.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

Love and pain become one and the same in the eyes of a wounded child.

Look wide, beyond your immediate surroundings and limits, and you see things in their right proportion. Look above the level of things around you and see a higher aim and possibility to your work.

When you feel that you can't fight it, you just go for it. When it comes to the arts, passion should always trump common sense.

Oh, is this your buried treasure? The light in the heart.