No matter who we are or where we live, deep inside we all feel incomplete. It's like we have lost something and need to get it back. Just what that something is, most of us never find out. And of those who do, even fewer manage to go out and look for it.

Love exists within each of us from the moment we are born and waits to be discovered from then on.

Isn't connecting people to distant lands and culture one of the strengths of good literature?

perhaps it took a stranger to make a woman like her speak her mind.

The digital world is developing with such force and such a pace that you simply can't ban or control it. People want to be globally connected.

A saint belongs to all humanity.

When I am writing political op-eds, I do think carefully about the impact of my words. When I am writing fiction, it's a different story. In my fiction I am more reckless. I don't care about the real world until I am done with the book.