Everything comes at a price. Everthing in your life. The question you have to ask yourself is, what price are you willing to pay?

You are my hand grenade, my artillery fire. You have replaced my heart with yourself.

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.

Tatiana said. "Go on with Dasha. She is right for you. She is a woman and I'm-" "Blind!", Alexander exclaimed. Tatiana stood, desolately failing in the battle of her heart. "Oh, Alexander. What do you want from me..." "Everything", he whispered fiercely.

I know that sometimes the things we carry become too much for us. We are burned down, but somehow we have to pick ourselves up and keep going

You have to keep your audience in your mind; if you're writing stuff that you know nobody's going to care about then you should rethink what you're doing!

I tend to be a great optimist when it comes to the United States and the American way of life, I think precisely because I wasn't born into it.