I've always admired people who are over-prepared.

We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

Time must be explicitly managed, like money.

When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.

I'm dying, and I'm having fun.

If you can find your footing between two cultures, sometimes you can have the best of both worlds.