"Reclaim your role as eco-role models and exemplars in your community. Change is happening rapidly. Let libraries continue to be at the center of it."

“My first seven novels were contemporary spiritual novels, my next nine had strong elements of fantasy, and now I'm writing thrillers, more as a choice to spread my wings than anything. Writers, like good wine, should mature with age.”

“I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“I wanted secular, non-Muslim people to stop kidding themselves that Islam is peace and tolerance.”

Source : Ayaan Hirsi Ali (2008). “Infidel”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

“There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.”

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.”

“You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story...is you.”

“You've got to know yourself so you can at last be yourself.”

Source : D. H. Lawrence (2008). “Fantasia of the Unconcious: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.73, ReadHowYouWant.com

“People go out of their way to show the love and respect for me. It is very gratifying.”