But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.

When we are no longer capable of love, we are no longer alive.

I taught myself to write in order to understand who I was and so yes, writing was an act of self-actualization in the beginning.

I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life.

Since the Middle Ages, people have been writing about angels. Angelology was actually at one point a scholastic discipline.

In terms of style, I think the memoirist should have a novelist's skill and all the elements of a novelist's toolbox. When I read a memoir, I want to really, deeply experience what the author experienced. I want to see the characters and hear the way they speak and understand how they think. And so in that way, writing a memoir feels similar to writing a novel.

But, most important, we must not become as base and treacherous as our enemies.