With each passing day, I didn't lose hope. I fought to have more.

If you are greedy, what is inside you is what makes you always hungry.

That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.

I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success.

I saw my mother in a different light. We all need to do that. You have to be displaced from what's comfortable and routine, and then you get to see things with fresh eyes, with new eyes.

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

In America nobody says you have to keep the circumstances somebody else gives you.