Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

I do a lot of mental work before I ever start writing.

If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Over the last twenty years, we've changed the world just enough to make it radically different, but not enough to make it work.

being a parent is not transaction ... we do not get what we give. It is the ultimate pay-it-forward endeavor: we are good parents not so they will be loving enough to stay with us but so they will be strong enough to leave us.

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.