Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Trust is like that. You can break it for a good reason. But it still remains broken.
Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
The readers are the ones who let us live our dreams. I try to write books which are really compelling - that you'd take on vacation and rather than going out, you'd read in your hotel room because you had to find out what happened. Hopefully that's what readers are responding to.