I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

That has always been it for me: family first.

Words give inspiration, nothing more. You want redemption? The very thing you seek inspiration for? Fight for it like your life depended on it, because it always does.

Tell him that riches will not procure for you a single moment of happiness. Luxury consoles poverty alone, and at that only for a short time, until one becomes accustomed to it.

Those who write are writers. Those who wait are waiters.

Your destination should determine who you choose as friend

As a water bead on a lotus leaf, as water on a red lily, does not adhere, so the sage does not adhere to the seen, the heard, or the sensed.

If I had to sum up my practical skills, I would use one word: survival. And operating a hedge fund utilized my training in survival to the fullest.

One can have no more mastery over the environment, than one has over himself.

Remorse turns us against ourselves.

Though I often looked for one, I finally had to admit that there could be no cure for Paris.

The job of the poet is to use language effectively, his own language, the only language which is to him authentic.