If his voice hasn't been the melody of my life, it's been the bass line, so subtle you don't notice it until it's missing.

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.

But there's an enormous difference between an audience that's watching you because they can't wait to see what comes next and an audience that's watching you because they're waiting for you to fail.

She understood what it was like to stand right in front of people you loved, even though they could not see you.

She understood how a world jammed with phones, email, and faxes could still leave you feeling utterly alone.

I love meeting my readers - so the more I can talk to at one event the better!

I think my writing has become "cleaner."