善良是一种聋人能听见、盲人能看见的语言。

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

War is not a means to resolve issues, it only reveals the failure of diplomacy.

I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you—it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

"We are all searching for something, but we don't always know what it is. Sometimes it's a person, sometimes it's a place, and sometimes it's just a feeling."

"Writing is a way of thinking, not just a record of thought."