Your perception plays tricks when you are hoping for something.

I am 5'6' and desperately wish I was taller.

I think a lot of parents are afraid to express certain emotions about children who are different, because they think that it's wrong to feel chained sometimes, to feel anger, to say to yourself, "I never wanted this." I think it's natural.

If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.

There are the medical dangers of football in general caused by head trauma over repetitive hits.

I think the older you are, the more you're going to cling to the printed word as being sacred.

I always had a curiosity about Texas. I had a curiosity about small-town life, although, granted, Odessa's not a tiny town.