My brother believed in all sorts of mythical creatures: pixies, dragons, werewolves, honest men.

When someone loves you up one side and down the other like that, you make every effort to stick around.

I believe that having something to hope for - even if it's just a better tomorrow- is the most powerful drug on this planet.

Extraordinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look.

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

I never lose sight of the fact that before I was a writer, I was a teacher. I still am. My classroom's just gotten a little bigger.

I'm telling you, if aliens landed on earth today and took a good hard look at why babies get born, they'd conclude that most people had children by accident, or because they drink too much on a certain night, or because birth control isn't one hundred percent, or for a thousand other reasons that really aren't very flattering.