Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you

Acting was always my unscratched itch, when I was in college and even afterwards.

What I do think is evident is that those countries in the world where Islamic extremism has recovered the most power, those are also the countries which are most disliked.

It's difficult not to color our perception of author's product with his personality. There are so many examples of this. What do we think of Ezra Pound - clearly a great poet and clearly kind of an asshole? You can say the same thing about Louis-Ferdinand Céline, who clearly was a Nazi sympathizer, and yet one of the great writers of the 20th century. It is tough, but there are enough examples around where we have to somehow find a way of separating the work from the artist and seeing what there is to see in the work, while also condemning the thoughts we see in the man.

When I am writing novels I don't read a lot of novels so I try to catch up in-between.

I grew up kissing books and bread.

O the shame of it, the humiliating shame of being condescended to by dolts