Henry James said there isn't any difference between "the English novel" and "the American novel" since there are only two kinds of novels at all, the good and the bad.

Indeed, learning to write may be part of learning to read. For all I know, writing comes out of a superior devotion to reading.

Human life is fiction's only theme.

Learning stamps you with it's moments. Childhood's learning is made up of moments. It isn't steady. It's a pulse.

I am a writer who came from a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

I can't think I had much of a sense of humor as long as I remained the only child. When my brother Edward came along we both became comics, making each other laugh.

War would end if the dead could return.

My parents were the ones who gave me the independence, who gave me the spark to do anything that you set your mind to, as all parents should do for their kids.

Successful people are the one's that create their own path, not follow someone else's.

Faith to me is having absolute certainty that God is in control of my life and that He has my best interests at heart.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

The only legitimate excuse you could have for having a baby in those dire, war torn, famine struck conditions - would be to eat it.

What about you? You didn't even think twice about following those two. They say, 'Let's go onto the ice' and right away you say, 'Where do I put my paws?' If you ask me, you're the brave one.

If you give yourself too much time, you kind of over-obsess about the music. It's not supposed to be like that.

The more constraints I have, the more opportunities I have to be creative to fix those constraints.

In the English language, I can love my car, or my house, or my daughter, or traveling, but in Greek and how I grew up, love is described with different words.