On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

He is different, and there will be many people you love who will be unhappy with you. You don’t want them to feel you’ve dishonored them. Yes, I know how it is. But life is short. A chance for great happiness doesn’t come along all that often.

The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.

Are you prepared for the first wound?

I can remember the times when I started including humor in novels that were suspenseful. I was told you can't do that because you can't keep the audience in suspense if they're laughing. My attitude was, if the character has a sense of humor, then that makes the character more real because that's how we deal with the vicissitudes of life, we deal with it through humor.

Home was not a perfect place. But it was the only home they had and they could hope to make it better.