One moment the world is as it is. The next, it is something entirely different. Something it has never been before.

I'm definitely more influenced by European writers than I am by American writers, there's no doubt about that.

It's an awful truth that suffering can deepen us, give a greater lustre to our colours, a richer resonance to our words.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

I wish we had more visible Christian and Catholic leaders who talked about love.

I WANT to be a saint. I want to save souls by the millions. I want to do good far and wide. I want to fight evil! I want my life-sized statue in every church. I'm talking six feet tall, blond hair, blue eyes-.Wait a second.Do you know who I am?

I don't like myself you know. I love myself. I'm devoted to myself till my dying day. But I don't like myself.