Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them.

I began as a dramatist in the theater, so I'm always thinking about how a story moves, what it looks like, how to engage the senses, how dialogue sounds, what feels authentic and sounds real, what's funny, how to build distinctive and original characters - all the aspects of playwriting, scene-building, the architecture of dramatizing.

The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.

The wedding vows are a license to be a complete jerk, with full knowledge that the person you married has agreed, no matter how large a horse's ass you are, to stay by your side until death. A fool could tell you this is a bad deal.

I'm writing novels because I found something I love because I tried it. Don't be afraid to shake it up.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling