I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

[Jesus Christ] used to have blue eyes but I painted them brown like mine and everybody’s, to make him normal.

I enjoy a special collegiality among other writers in the thriller community. They call me Canadas scariest writer, and I love that.

Psychoanalysts and elephants, they never forget.

Smallness of mind is the cause of stubbornness, and we do not credit readily what is beyond our view.

Mistakes are their own instructors

There might be many similarities between Erdogan and Putin. We can see that in the current developments, unfortunately. But Viktor Orban seriously does not fit in that list.

There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Fashion designers are dictators of taste.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

I've never been insulted by hateful satanists for not believing in their devil. Only by loving Christians for not believing in their God.