I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.

Loose lips sink ships.

Because I write fiction that is based in the real world, it's going to lead people into some of the modern dilemmas and concerns and even catastrophes that they will think about in a new way.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

The older I get, the more I appreciate my rural childhood. I spent a lot of time outdoors, unsupervised, which is a blessing.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

God doesn’t need to punish us. He just grants us a long enough life to punish ourselves.