If you want to fall in love, you can't hold everything in. You have to open up, take that risk. You'll be hurt sometimes, but if you don't, you'll never be happy. The one you find may not be the kind of woman you expected to fall in love with, but it wont matter, you'll love her for exactly what she is.

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

Illness and accidents were mysterious manifestations of the war of the spirits, fought on the battleground of the body.

I started writing to please myself, a story I would like to read, and that is still true.

I can't tell you any more than any other writer can tell you why they write, and I don't know what my influences are.

I really fell in love with Africa.

The idea led me into the research, which continues to give me more ideas for the story.