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

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

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

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

The primary obligation of any prisoner is to escape. Whether that means actually leaving or simply figuring out a way to handle things so you don't go crazy is up to you.

Not a single man on earth knows from his own experience the how and where of his birth, only from tradition, which is often very uncertain.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

The best of men choose one thing in preference to all else, immortal glory in preference to mortal good; whereas the masses simply glut themselves like cattle.

You can feel all things at once, so why not wear all things at once?

I have had a career in which, almost without exception, every single person Ive worked with has helped me.

Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life.

People think, because we're young, we aren't complex, but that's not true. We deal with life and love and broken hearts in the same way a woman a few years older might.

People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready.