It's not supernatural. It's something normal.

I don't have big muscles. I'm not tall. I have power inside. I fight.

When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.

Everyone is fighting like crazy because it's the last Grand Slam. When you play the Grand Slams, you just have to give everything you have.

Magic is when you live your life the way you didn’t picture it and leave nothing behind.

I like colorful tales with black beginnings and stormy middles and cloudless blue-sky endings. But any story will do.

Love shouldn't come with conditions.

Nothing in a graduate degree in art history prepares you for the eloquence of the eraser.

I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong

My teaching forces me to articulate what I think works in a piece of fiction and how I think it works. All of that gives me energy as a writer.

If life gives you lemons, drink the juice in order to mask the presence of performing-enhancing drugs.

Reality is a formless lure, And only when we know this Do we dare to be unreal.

You don’t have the courage of a half-bred mongrel.

Tomorrow gives a beck'ning hand-- I turn my face away; I'll not invite her to my home-- I only love Today.