To me, a good event is governed by the audience.

Chicken,' Josie said. 'Have you ever been in love?' Peter looked at Josie, and thought of how they had once tied a note with their addresses to a helium balloon and let it go in her backyard, certain it would reach Mars. Instead, they had received a letter from a widow who lived two blocks away. 'Yeah,' he said. 'I think so.

On a really dark night, you can see between 1,000 and 1,500 stars, and there are millions more that haven't been discovered. It is so easy to think that the world revolves around you, but all you have to do is stare up at the sky to realize it isn't that way at all. -Brian Fitzgerald

I haven't run out of ideas yet. Usually while I'm working on a book, I'm doing research for the next one!

Read a ton. Take a workshop course so you learn to give and get criticism.

I thought lightning wasn't supposed to strike in the same place twice....sure it does...but only if you're too dumb to move.

I believe in love. I think it just hits you and pulls the rug out from underneath you and, like a baby, demands your attention every minute of the day.