To entrust to an editor a story over which you have labored and to which your name and reputation are attached can be like sending your daughter off for an evening with Ted Bundy.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Friends are the family we choose for ourselves.

Friends are family you choose.

A young city, Miami lacks the history, the roots, and the traditions of other major metropolitan areas. Everybody here is from someplace else.

Everybody seems normal, till you get to know them.

Fear is like water. You need it. And it's good for you, as long as you have the right amount.

Books are like your children. They take nine months to write; the manuscript weighs six pounds and...you send them out into the world and hope that some day they'll send back money.

Love is so fragile and so often fatal. I am amazed when people are brave enough to risk it.

The past is an unsolved mystery and the truth a moving target.

If not for bad luck we'd have no luck at all.

To express open creativity, you first need to create your own space of seclusion.

Constant prayer interrupts our ego trips and disrupts our toxic trajectories.

Birthday is special day of one's life

Real adulthood is the result of two qualities: self-discipline and self-reliance. The process of developing them together in balance is called maturing.

When it comes to luck, you make your own.

The cure for materialism is to have enough for everybody and to share. When people are sure of having what they need they cease to think about it.

Pain fades,” I said slowly. “But being a nutcase seems to stick around. Guess who got the better deal here?” The last thing I remember is Mr. Chu’s face blazing with fury.

I would love to play your common, everyday guy, but I never get cast as that.

It is a thousand pities never to say what one feels.

When you are totally depressed, you should try giggling. Just make yourself laugh. Force yourself to laugh.