It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.

Carmen prayed hard. She prayed while standing near the priest in hopes it would give her request extra credibility. What she prayed for was nothing. She prayed that God would look on them and see the beauty of their existence and leave them alone.

You can't always trust what you think, what you know ... but you can always trust your nature.

Art stands on the shoulders of craft, which means that to get to the art, you must master the craft.

You are always someones favorite unfolding story

I'm very comfortable writing.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what? In my life I have met astonishingly good people.