When I fall in love I'm obsessed.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

Conceit is a privilege of the ignorant; the wise man is humble because he knows how little he knows.

Every person is born with a talent, and happiness depends on discovering that talent in time.

Love is music, and sex is only the instrument.

In my lifetime, the world has become better, not worse. And the world is moving, very slowly but surely with more democracy and more liberal way of thinking, more inclusion and more diversity.

I should say that I'm not conscious of any particular style or any particular literary device when I am writing. I have written 22 books, and they are all very different. I have tried all kinds of genres.