I made real sacrifices and took big risks. But living, it seems to me, is largely about risk.

The dark book has been terribly popular. Dark characters, dysfunction, and all sorts of things from reality that are true in our world.

Let's just say that I was raised by my grandparents.

Publishing is, by its nature, about deadlines, and deadlines are toxic.

Love is an endless act of forgiveness.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart, he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of loneliness...and looks forward to happiness and content feels the necessity of loving. Without it, life is unfinished.