I'm inspired by watching and listening to people. For example, my first novel, The Scale, came to life after I overheard two women discussing their struggle with their weight at the gym.

So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.

In the stock market, when you are right, you make a little money; when you are wrong, you learn a lot of lessons, so you always win!

I kinda flirt with everything and everyone, no matter if it's a tree or a coffee cup. I can't resist.

During my life I have seen, known, and lost too much to be the prey of vain dread; and, as for the hope of immortality, I am as weary of that as I am of gods and kings. For my own sake only I write this; and herein I differ from all other writers, past and to come.

So much is man the slave of his heart that he will shut his eyes to what does not please him and believe all that he hopes.

My real name is Mica, spelled with a C. My dad is called Michael. He wanted me to be called Michael but my mother said over her dead body. She wasn't into the whole junior thing.