I can't write what I don't believe in.

Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

stories are the one sure way I know to touch the heart and change the world.

The worst thing in the world was the way I felt when I wanted us to be like the families in the books in the library, when I just wanted Daddy Glen to love me like the father in Robinson Crusoe. (209)

Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.

Writing is the only way I know to demand justice from an uncaring universe.

Behind the story I tell is the one I don't...Behind the story you hear is the one I wish I could make you hear.