The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what is should flee. Forgetting it once had a true lover. Love will prove greater than lust. Sacrifice will overcome seduction. And blood will flow.

Writing wasn't about making money. I wanted to find fulfillment in writing and telling stories, and that's what's driven me.

I think a woman is born with the desire to hear she is beautiful.

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

The battle over flesh and blood cannot compare to the battle for the heart.