Sometimes I cheat and buy things I used to make from scratch and just doctor them up.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Hope is the major weapon against the suicide impulse.

I don't have any tricky plays. I'd rather have tricky players.

Hurry n: The dispatch of bunglers.

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

I think it's very hard to be sexually explicit and erotic - though there are writers, like K. M. Soehnlein, who are just brilliant at this.

My people are scared of the air around them, they always have an excuse not to fight for freedom.

I actually got started in acting when I was in pre-school. I was really into dance and performing, so my mom had me in dance classes, and then I got involved in a local theater company.

We have millions of unemployed and cannot afford any more immigration. Where are they supposed to live? It is not viable.

Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

With competition there is always ego and hubris... competition gets in the way of work.