I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.

There are some things, I think, you're btter off not remembering.

Maybe if God gives you a handicap, he makes sure you've got a few extra doses of humor to take the edge off.

She felt a cage coming down around her; too late she realized that he had her trapped by the heart. And like any unwilling animal that was well and truly caught, she could escape only by leaving a piece of herself behind.

The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.

Hopefully, more and more people will come to understand that a child who's "different from" is not one who is "lesser than."

As Lacy waited for her turn to speak on Peter's behalf, she thought back to the first time she realized she could hate her own child.