I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

When another writer in another house is not free, no writer is free.

Oscar Wilde always makes me smile - with respect and admiration. His short stories prove that it is possible to be both sarcastic, even cynical, but deeply compassionate. Just seeing the cover of one of Wildes books in a bookshop makes me smile.

A writer in someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he is.

Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with.

Are you an angel that approaching you should be so terrifying?

Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?