As I grew up, one of my strongest allies has been my sister.

I feel about politics the same way I do about religion: I find the best I can from different things.

It will not fall away. Man cannot judge it. For art sings of God, and ultimately belongs to Him.

I always know that everything I do is the best I could do.

The two things that constantly inspired me were books and travel.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

A writer, or any artist, can’t expect to be embraced by the people [but] you just keep doing your work - because you have to, because it’s your calling.