Hardships can harden even the best person.

Why do some memories live only on your tongue or in your nose? Why do others always stay in your heart?

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

Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth.

I read a book a day when I was a kid. My family was not literary; we did not have any books in the house.

Placing on writers the responsibility to represent a culture is an onerous burden.

We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming - well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate.