Journalism encourages haste ... and haste is the enemy of art.

I will do whatever I have to do to reach people with the things I believe are important. Life is too short not to do everything you can.

She hated being a nobody and like all children, adopted or not, I have had to live out some of her unlived life. We do that for our parents - we don't really have any choice.

To me, these days will never end. I am always there, in that room with her, or if not I, the imprint of myself - my fossil-love

In the presence of love, hearth and quest become one.

It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror, crime, the strange story of you and I. The alphabet of my DNA shapes certain words, but the story is not told. I have to tell it myself. What is it that I have to tell myself again and again? That there is always a new beginning, a different end. I can change the story. I am the story. Begin.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.