The moon rode in the sky - a hunted thing dodging behind wisps of tattered cloud, and the air was heavy and wet and redolent of dying leaves. ("The Refugee")

What you gain another will lose, for What is there is all there is. What you share another will have, for What is there is enough for all.

Merdeka!' the Malay man screamed.'Merdekaaaaaa!' the sea of people echoed.

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

I've been writing short stories for twenty years now, on and off ever since I was in the creative writing program at San Francisco State University.

I watched Arsenal in the Champions League the other week playing some of the best football I've ever seen and yet they couldn't have scored in a brothel with two grand in their pockets!

I hadn't read the Dr. Strange comics growing up.

It takes one second to ruin a woman's life.

So much better to write pen on paper; you can do it anywhere, say, while stuck at the airport.

I do not believe in hypocrisy.

Whether or not Big Brother is watching us, we certainly have to watch him, which may be even worse.