I write about times and places I would visit in a time machine, like ancient Rome or the Wild West.

To create a character who really interests you, try combining aspects of your favourite fictional character with a real person.

I loved every minute of my three years majoring in classics at Berkeley.

Now, if I had an Indian name, it would be "Stands in Confusion".

You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.

There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.

Fall in love with someonewho tastes like adventurebut looks likethe calm, beautiful morningafter a terrible storm

but that shadow self of hers wasn't so sure. The ugly, toxic thought was smaller than a drop of blood, yet it poisoned the entire stream.

Terrible errors are rarely made all at once. Usually they are performed one small misstep at a time.

The severity of your problems is a matter of perspective. Change your perspective and most of them become insignificant. Some of them will no longer exist as problems - but opportunities instead.

I'm thought of as this pissy, complaining, freaked-out schizophrenic who wants to kill himself all the time.

The Qur'an says speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as "dead," or die in the way of Allah as "dead," "they are alive, but you perceive not."

So great moreover is the regard of the law for private property, that it will not authorize the least violation of it; no, not even for the general good of the whole community.

Some heat, some spice and plenty of citrus are the building blocks of many north African fish dishes.