It's a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life.

I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.

My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day.

If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.

So sad! This is the saddest part when you lose someone you love- that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this the same person I lost?

I am like a falling star who has finally found her place next to another in a lovely constellation, where we will sparkle in the heavens forever.

Writing is an extreme privilege but it's also a gift. It's a gift to yourself and it's a gift of giving a story to someone.

I was six when my mother taught me the art of invisible strength..."strongest wind cannot be seen."

How can you blame a person for his fears and weaknesses unless you have felt the same and done differently?

Libraries are the pride of the city.

Who knows where inspiration comes from. Perhaps it arises from desperation. Perhaps it comes from the flukes of the universe, the kindness of the muses.

I wanna know what's going on out there. I'd hate to live my entire life inside the walls as an ignorant!

Words only make sense when the person who says them means a lot.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

Of course it's true: the public want to see young people - young people are the people who go to the cinema. It's a sad fact of life, but you've got to accept it and not whine about it.

When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!

Our modern society - especially in the West, and especially now - reveres youth.

We used to have actresses trying to become stars; now we have stars trying to become actresses.

NO is always a YES to something else.

I wanted to tell stories about people who didn't have the chance to tell their own.

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece