That's the thing with love: It's going to be wrong until it's right..

I brings the ruckus to the ladies..

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves..

It is not customary to love what one has..

Since I hold no judgments against my characters, no matter how heinous they might seem, I present them as real people with their own moral centers. W….

Mahoney: You have to live. Mr. Magorium: Darlin'...I have..

You narrow hope when you define it..

Life eats life to live..

Attack in all directions!.

You've got to make sure that you make the best of the day that you're in..

I wouldn't mind my book being called an African novel if it didn't invite lazy readings..

The fiction I've written and published is certainly inflected by the work of authors I was reading or translating at the time. One of my methods for ….

The only fear is fear itself, so get rid of it..

I recreate myself; that is my only power..

I am doing what I love to do..

I do so much work that I don't have a lot of time for my life!.

When you realize the writers start writing to who you are, you're basically reading reviews of yourself. And then it becomes this cyclical nightmare ….

I have such thin skin, so I make a concerted effort to avoid reading anything about myself..

As I came to power peacefully, so shall I keep it..

Can you see me? All of me? Probably not. No one ever really has..

I see and approve better things, but follow worse..