There are a lot of people who think that's what's needed to be successful is always being right, always being careful, always picking the right path.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

Even today a lot of people know me because of my grandfather.

The current economic system is fundamentally flawed and inevitably destructive.

Writing is nearly always a matter of finding whatever your brain needs to trick it into being creative, and in my case, a tiny little bit of fact just seems to work.

There is a certain way of searching for the truth in mathematics that Plato is said first to have discovered. Theon called this analysis.

As you were, I was. As I am, you will be.

I always advise children who ask me for tips on being a writer to read as much as they possibly can. Jane Austen gave a young friend the same advice, so I'm in good company there.

Feminine virtue is nothing but a convenient masculine invention.

In the [Michael] Jackson orbit, normal is relative. What a mess.