A feeling can't kill you.

We writers are resilient souls.

When I was 11 or 12, I was really bored with everything on my summer reading list. It was all happy, middle-grade kinds of books. I was getting frustrated, because I liked to read. My mother went to the library and got me a copy of 'The Other Side of Midnight' by Sidney Sheldon. It was my first adult book.

I used to have only one name; it used to mean something.

It's best to let her go," he says. No, no, that's wrong. It's never right to give up on someone.

I've done it all before, I tell myself, and I can do it again. Trust is the strongest weapon.

You have a way of looking at things. You make it seem as though everything's going to be okay. I can't imagine a more dangerous thing to have than hope like yours.