A person's last moments are an important thing. You can't choose how you're born but you can choose how you die.

Writing a long novel is like survival training. Physical strength is as necessary as artistic sensitivity.

Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

It's basically impossible for everybody's justice to prevail or everybody's happiness to triumph, so chaos takes over.

Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.

This is what it means to live on. When granted hope, a person uses it as fuel, as a guidepost to life. It is impossible to live without hope.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.