People nearly always believe, and are willing to back it up with weapons and cruelty, that their religion and way of life is better than the other person's

I approach serious subjects, and I like to have the good guys win and have the parents among the good guys

When in doubt, shut up.

People think they own time. They have watches and clocks and digital pulses. But they are wrong. Time owns them.

If you write a story based on a real person, you're trapped by the details of the real person and his life. It gets in the way of writing your own story.

Lying on the front passenger seat, as if it didn't matter, was Rose's Diary. It Mattered.

Actually my first eight books were historical novels, but they were never published