Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Aphrodite is about lust and gluttony - the only two sins worth committing, in my opinion.

We only appreciate what we have when we lose it.

The fastest-growing population in the United States is the older people, because we are living much longer, healthier lives. The problem is, individuals often don't have the resources to take care of older people as they age. This is something that is happening, and we have to deal with it. It was happening also in my life.

The first lie of fiction is that the author gives some order to the chaos of life: chronological order, or whatever order the author chooses.

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories. You are as if born again, in the sense of the snake: You leave your skin behind and you begin again. For most people in the world, that is totally impossible.

We've lost our sense of ethics; we live in a world of small-mindedness, of gratification without happiness and actions without meaning.