We're surrounded by mandates, and I believe that literature should be mandate-free. I feel very strongly about that.

Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

It's tough to break yourself as news to a town that already knows you.

A sound-bite culture can't discuss science very well. Exactly what we're losing when we reduce biodiversity, the causes and consequences of global warming-these traumas can't be adequately summarized in an evening news wrap-up.

For Lou Ann, life itself was a life-threatening enterprise.

Corn syrup and added fats have been outed as major ingredients in fast food, but they hide out in packaged foods too, even presumed-innocent ones like crackers.

Sugar, it's no parade but you'll get down the street one way or another, so you'd just as well throw your shoulders back and pick up the pace.