Give yourself five minutes to consider how you can turn a miserable situation to your benefit and that light bulb is going to click on.

Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.

I wondered if she was trying to convey something to me, something she could not put into words - something prior to words that she could not grasp within herself and which therefore had no hope of ever turning into words.

Sometimes when I think of life, I feel like a piece of driftwood washed up on shore.

You have to dream intentionally. Most people dream a dream when they are asleep. But to be a writer, you have to dream while you are awake, intentionally.

Everything just blows me away.

The best point of my novels, I think, is their humor. I want to keep many my works humorous.