What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

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.

No one can save me except myself.

Hell is nothing but a place we wish God has created for our enemies, we ourselves think that he will ultimately show some kind of clemency towards us

Architecture is space structured to serve man and to move him.

Candour and generosity unless tempered by due moderation lead to ruin.

All the great political music was made at the height of political confrontations.

As long as you're eating well and moving your body every day, age is just a state of mind

It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

It sounded like you were having Bella for lunch, and we came to see if you would share.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.