You might have to lose control before you could find out what you'd been missing.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

For someone who can’t remember very much, there seems to be a lot I can’t forget.

It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages. It is always hardest for me to write a book that has kids in it close to my kids' ages.

Some people, they get down in a hole so deep they can't figure out what to hold on to.

My mother used to tell me that when push comes to shove, you always know who to turn to. That being a family isn't a social construct but an instinct.

A duck walks into a bar and the bartender asks, what'll it be? The duck doesn't answer because it's a duck.