Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

I was abused my family was the "brady bunch

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

Like the sun, touch someone with the warmth of your kindness.

Sons of a revolution fight for liberty. They give blood, flesh, limbs, their very lives. But daughters . . . we sacrifice our eternal souls.

Landscape consists in the multiple, overlapping intricacies and forms that exist in a given space at a moment in time.

Nothing very very good and nothing very very bad lasts for very very long.

One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

I was always interested in language. I thought, why not? If a painting, by the normal definition of the term, is paint on canvas, why can't it be painted words on canvas?

In my career, fun becomes a big factor. If something feels like it's going to be creative and be fun - follow your bliss. Is this where the juice is? Then I go there.

The way I write is really like putting one foot in front of the other. I really let the characters do most of the work, they start talking and they just lead the way.

Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

You have to practice until you die.