Literature is about being a complex, contradictory human being.

The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.

Each of us will have to make the choices that allow us to be the largest versions of ourselves.

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.

A novel is not, after all, a historical document, but a way to travel through the human heart.

I write to find out what I am thinking. I write to find out who I am. I write to understand things.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

Don't plan it all. Let life surprise you a little.

Everyone needs a strong sense of self. It is our base of operations for everything that we do in life.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations.

In a Universe with infinite possibilities we don't have to have our hearts set on just one.

In Japan, however, if you against someone and create a bad atmosphere, your relations may break-off completely. People tend to react emotionally, and most are afraid of being excluded from the group.

Character is plot, plot is character.

Knowing your inner voice and how you will confront it, is like talking to yourself in front of the mirror and appreciate it.

I think exercising and eating fairly clean does wonders for your skin.

I was married to a state of mind and I divorced it

Hubris and science are incompatible.

In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.

You cannot be pro-jobs and anti-business at the same time. You cannot love employment and hate employers.

Realism is a corruption of reality.