Only time conquers time and its burdens.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

No degree of prosperity can be sufficient to eliminate all misfortune, and sloth is impervious to opportunity.

Sometimes many publishers prefer that you write the same book every time, but I have a low boredom threshold so that isn't going to happen.

Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.

I am sustained by the certainty that life has meaning...as does death.