The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

We have fallen into this very mean description of humanity. Naturalism in fiction is too reductive in its definition of human beings.

I'm conscious of a series of circles working its way through my life. And at this particular moment I have come round to the beginning of my writing cycle. It begins with poetry. There's hardly a day that goes past on which I don't write poetry.

I am not fighting for success, just to get more beauty out of myself and share it with more people.

We have not yet arrived, but every point at which we stop requires a re-definition of our destination.

I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.