I'm writing books. They're still a mix of fact and fiction and will continue to be. I think it's an interesting place to work.

There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.

I try to write books that are different from the books I've already written. I think one of the thing I really try to do is reinvent how a novel can be written.

The Bible was written two thousand years ago. The world is a different place now. Stories that had meaning then are meaningless now. Beliefs that might have been valid then are invalid now. Those books should be looked at in the same way we look at anything of that age with interest with an acknowledgement of the historical importance but they should not be thought of as anything that has any value.

The past doesn't matter. People cling to it because it allows them to ignore the present.

There is emotion in the hug, and there is respect and a form of love. Emotion that comes from honesty, respect that comes from challenge, and the form of love that exists between people whose minds have touched, whose hearts have touched, whose souls have touched. Our minds touched. Our hearts touched. Our souls touched. We separate.

Not everyone who works hard makes their dream come true. You need luck and hard work and being in the right place at the right time but I still very much believe it's possible.