Very few people see their own actions as truly evil,... It is left to their victims to decide what is evil and what is not.

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.

In real life I do violence, but for psychic stuff I do other things better.

I'd never met coffee that wasn't wonderful. It was just a matter of how wonderful it was.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?