People come from internally, from other places in the United States, but also displaced people from other parts of the world. They come here. If you walk in the streets of San Francisco, you hear all the languages. You smell all the foods. You listen to the music from everywhere. There's great diversity.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

With women the best aphrodisiac is words.

Silence before being born, silence after death: life is nothing but noise between two unfathomable silences.

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.

Love is a free contract that begins with a spark and can end the same way.