Whatever is powerful to you can be translated into something which will matter to somebody that you will never know.

A curse on this game. How can you stick at a game when the rules keep on changing? I shall call myself Alice and play croquet with the flamingos. In Wonderland everyone cheats and love is Wonderland, isn't it?

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.

Unconditional love is what a child should expect from a parent even though it rarely works out that way.

The truth is that you can divide your heart in all sorts of interesting ways - a little here, a little there, most banked at home, some of it coined out for a flutter. But love cleaves through the mind's mathematics. Love's lengthways splits the heart in two - the heart where you are, the heart where you want to be. How will you heal your heart when love has split it in two?

Always in my books, I like to throw that rogue element into a stable situation and then see what happens.

Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.