It doesn't take a whole long life to realize that what we deserve to have, we rarely get.

Lawyers were notorious for finding cases in the most unlikely places, especially ones with huge potential damagers awards.

You would wind up as a cat, I told her. They don't need anyone else. I need you, she replied. Well, I said. Maybe I'll come back as catnip.

As anyone who's ever contracted it knows, lies are an infectious disease. They slip under the almond slivers of your fingernails and into your bloodstream.

It's certainly my honor to be able to, hopefully, change the world a tiny bit, one mind at a time.

You are only as invincible as your smallest weakness, and those are tiny indeed - the length of a sleeping baby's eyelash, the span of a child's hand. Life turns on a dime, and - it turns out - so does one's conscience.

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.