It's the hardest thing in the world to put yourself in someone else's place, try to really feel what they feel, figure out why they do the things they do. Especially when it's easier to stick a label on something. Or someone.

Libraries rock! Not a sermon, just a fact. As a kid I was a library rat and books changed my life. They can change yours.

The real worth of a person came from how he acted during the bad times. (John Fiske)

Trapped in a trap of your own making.

People have given me classified information, but always with the disclaimer 'This can never end up in a book.' And it never does.

I'd read a lot of thrillers about politicians and presidents, but never one where you flip the stereotypes and make good people bad and bad people good.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.