Never allow carping critics to deter you from success. Instead, silence them with it.

Pay no attention to toxic words. What people say is often a reflection of themselves, not you.

Minds that have withered into psychosis are far more terrifying than any character of fiction.

Persistence and passion will make you invincible.

God pardons like a mother who kisses the offense into everlasting forgetfulness.

And after I played them both a few times, I realized they were two halves of the same song.

A little bit of anorexia, a little bit of bulimia. I'm not totally OK now but I don't think any woman is.

Poor Congo, barefoot bride of men who took her jewels and promised the Kingdom.

Life is about where you are right now, and the choices you make.

It's really important in any historical fiction, I think, to anchor the story in its time. And you do that by weaving in those details, by, believe it or not, by the plumbing.

Ladies of the choir, I want you to sound like twenty-two women having babies without chloroform.

I'm always researching ancient religions, and I was also raised Jehovah's Witness, so that kind of scarred me for life.

To find his place and fill it is success for a man.

When truth is replaced by silence,the silence is a lie.