A contest was held in 1994 to rename the Los Angeles Convention and Exhibition Center after an extensive renovation and expansion. The winning name, chosen from over ten thousand entries, was the Los Angeles Convention Center.

Light streamed through one of the windows and across her face and I have never seen anything or anyone so beautiful in my life. If my heart had stopped at that moment I would have fallen happy and fallen full and I would have seen in life all that I had wanted to see and all that I needed to see. Fall. Let me fall.

That's what ever great writer, I believe, has done over the course of time - is they've figured out new ways of telling the same stories.

Being an unpublished novelist has about as much social acceptability as being a shopping bag lady.

Most of the time, it's not the concept, but the execution of craft that counts.

In Lilly's eyes her beautiful clear water eyes there is what I have sought and never found, wanted and never had, hoped for and never discovered. Love.

I listen to the tick of an unseen clock marking moments of time long passed.