I fall down on the side of free will, simply because if you look at where I came from, and what I was able to do in my life, what was able to happen.

In my books, I never portray violence as a reasonable solution to a problem. If the lead characters in the story are driven to it, it's at the extreme end of their experience.

I've had good publishers and bad publishers, and you've got to learn when the advice is sensible and when it's not.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

I love my editor, but that would be the definition of hell to me to live with someone and have them go page by page through my manuscript. That I want to avoid at all costs.

To many people, free will is a license to rebel not against what is unjust or hard in life but against what is best for them and true.

In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.