The novelist is more a marathon runner than long-distance runner and the kind of courage it takes working in such isolation cannot be underestimated. I really respect my fellow writers on this front.

Information is the mortar that both builds and destroys empires.

The worst enemy is one whose doctrines are founded in hate and are thus beyond debate.

Trust is won not given.

So many of man's actions appear to have no immediate consequence but, concealed, do their work until finally all catches up and forms a complex web of cause and effect.

To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

It seems to me that women are freed from their responsibilities only when they are merry widows or eccentric old spinsters.

This may be the very nature of love, a passion as fickle as the sea, full of certainty when the object of desire is absent, yet dubious when confronted again with the lover's presence.

Believe, my child. Faith is the food of survival.

A man who denies his past is a man who truly denies himself a future, for he refuses to know himself, and to deny knowledge of oneself is to stumble through life as handicapped as the blind mute.

We cannot choose the times we live in. Just as, sometimes, we cannot choose whom we love.

work at our responsibility as parents as if everything in life counted on it, because in fact everything in life does count on it.

The pain you hide leaves the deepest scars.

Utopian movements produce dystopias.

The desire for liberty has also made itself felt as struggle against domestic tyranny or arbitrary rule.

Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct.

The seeds that we speed into life to be trees, will soon become fallen if thier roots aren't deep.

Acting is very competitive. There are few good scripts out there and the ones that are good are very competitive. You look at your options and often times they're not too appealing.

Envy, like a false mirror, distorts the symmetry of the sweetest form.

I did jazz dance for a few years.

Going to Africa was being able to take my volunteering and my passion for hospice one step further.