The first step is to believe that it's possible. Once I had a taste of success, you start to believe in it a little more.

He was yelling pretty urgently. There's different pitches of yell and he was screaming.

I kind of have to pinch myself. A lot of my dreams are coming true.

I want to be the top player in the league, and I want to bring my game to another level. I want to play against the opposition's best players-and I want to beat them.

If you have understood, then what you have understood is not God.

To forgive is a solemn tussle between love and hate

Lives in previous centuries for women are largely a matter of class. It would have been fun to have been a rich, privileged woman in the 18th century, but no fun at all to be her maid.

I don't have a good attention span and can't spend long in record stores or video shops or games emporiums without getting grumpy.

Humans had a saying. Mess with the bull and get the horns. Well, Harpies had a saying, too. Mess with a Harpy and die.

I was the one of those students who made the top half of the class possible.

Music is an important part of my writing process.

We're all flawed heroes. Responsibility is power. Take responsibility for the consequences of your actions, and the world is yours. Everything is a choice.

The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.