Good fiction creates empathy. A novel takes you somewhere and asks you to look through the eyes of another person, to live another life.

I'm never going to tell the reader what to believe; I'm going to examine these characters that believe different ways, and examine their motives.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

you can't really know the person standing before you, because always there is some missing piece

If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can.

School is about two parts ABCs to fifty parts Where Do I Stand in the Great Pecking Order of Humankind.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.