I don't think I began to be a professional writer until I learned my weaknesses and what I couldn't do. This forced me to compensate..

The possibility that hope comes out of hopelessness and that the opposite of things carry the seeds of birth - love out of hate, good out of evil. Di….

Family life was wonderful. The streets were bleak. The playgrounds were bleak. But home was always warm. My mother and father had a great relationshi….

There are no taboos. Every topic is open, however shocking. It is the way that the topics are handled that's important, and that applies whether it i….