Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with.
Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

