Life without music is unthinkable.
. . . it is how a person goes about quenching his desires or living with them unrequited that the readers get a glimpse of his true character.
If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?
I think books with weak or translucent plots can survive if the character being drawn along the path is rich, interesting and multi-faceted. The opposite is not true.
You know what I did after I wrote my first novel? I shut up and wrote twenty-three more.
There is no client as scary as an innocent man.
You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.
Children do not grow up all of a piece; look for the child of seven, especially to take many backward glances at the way he has come, while bounds and leaps unevenly ahead in his growth.
Faith, family, academics and then sports was the order of priorities in my family. My parents really stuck to these principles when raising me and my two brothers. As long as we took care of everything, they let us play as much basketball as we wanted.
Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.
When a smile touches our hearts. When the forest stills us to peace. When music moves us to rapture. When we really love, laugh or dance with joy. We are at one with the Angels.