Personally, its a comfort and happiness to know that my work is taken seriously and is not marginalised and put in a box of ethnic immigrant writing in America.

At night my father often heard sporadic gunfire mixed in with the sound of dogs howling. If the war came closer, soon there would be only minor difference between shooting a dog and shooting a man.

You see, at the beginning we weren't fighters. We weren't yellers or throwers, even if we eventually came to be. It would take time and much deeper wounds for us to get to that point.

We persist and linger longer than we think, leaving traces of ourselves wherever we go. If you take that away, then we all simply vanish.

I had lost too much of the heart and all the faith needed to stay afloat in a job where every human encounter felt like an anvil strung around my neck just when I thought I was nearing the shore.

In fact, there is nothing so easily remade as our definitions of ourselves.

Creativity becomes more visible when adults try to be more attentive to the cognitive processes of children than to the results they achieve in various fields of doing and understanding.

I feel incendiary, a wildfire. My spirit licks at the gates of a very elaborate, customized, and distracting emotional Hades.

I shall ever despise the man who can be gratified by the passion which he never wished to inspire, nor solicited the avowal of.

Life is a stage, that we all have to go through!

My favourite dance is the Foxtrot. It's a proper dance with proper music. It has class.

It interrupts any doing, any ordinary activities, no matter what they happen to be. All thinking demands a stop-and-think.

You may not be able to do all you find out, but make sure you find out all you can do.

The work of an artist who attempts lovingly to embrace reality, will ring false, will degenerate into kitsch.

I have been loved said Edward to the stars

I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.