The idea you can tell a writer of a specific religion to stop writing about that religion is presumptuous.

I get really starstruck and tongue tied when I'm around other writers and the conversation tends not to go well.

... somehow I couldn't stop. I had turned into someone that I would have pitied in another life; someone who searched for signs, who analyzed patterns, who went over every word in a conversation looking for hidden meanings, secret signals, the subtext that said, Yes, I still love you, of course I still love you.

Read everything. Read fiction and non-fiction, read hot best sellers and the classics you never got around to in college.

I've learned that some broken things stay broken, and I've learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.

People are always coming up to me with my books and saying, 'You write these things I think but I could never say,'

The condom broke. I know how stupid that sounds. It's the reproductive version of the dog ate my homework.