Nevertheless, if you ask me, most people have children just as their own enthusiasm about life begins to wane. A child allows us to revisit the excitement we once felt about, well... everything. A generation later, our grandkids bump up our enthusiasm yet again. Reproducing is a kind of booster shot to keep us loving life.

They're just words is all. Powerless. Vocabulary. Dialogue.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

I see so many tattoos of my stuff on people - tattoos of my book covers, tattoos of quotes . . . it's kind of daunting sometimes.

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

People have to deal with their issues together; they have to expose themselves and kind of exhaust themselves.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.