"So basically, that entire theory is blown to hell."Not basically," Win corrected. "Entirely."

I once worked as a tour guide in the Costa del Sol of Spain.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.

I'm a little bit of a control freak.

Sometimes even when the book is over I dont know whos good and whos bad. Its really more interesting, I think, to write about gray characters than it is to write about black and white.

Im 48 years old, not a kid anymore by any definition, but here is a universal truth that every adult at some point will realize: We are all always 17 years old, waiting for our lives to begin.