Writers speak for those who are kept in silence

There is no light without shadow, just as there is no happiness without pain.

I don't think that we have to look like the models in the magazines because they are 19 year olds and they have been photo shopped extensively, not but given what I, we have as the raw material, take care of it.

When I write fiction, I never try to deliver a message; I just want to tell a story. But I admit that I want the story to be memorable and the characters to touch the reader's heart.

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

The world is a very unjust, unfair place and we have to live with that. Historically, there is impunity for most crimes.

...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars