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

I found plain truth very interesting.

Seeing her sitting there unresponsive makes me realize that silence has a sound.

It took me a lifetime to realizethings don't get lost if they don't have value- you don't miss what you don't care about.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Families were never what you wanted them to be. We all wanted what we couldn't have: the perfect child, the doting husband, the mother who wouldn't let go. We live in our grown-up dollhouses completely unaware that, at any moment, a hand might come in and change around everything we'd become accustomed to.

And sometimes, he was less lucid. He'd run around his cell like a caged animal; he'd rock back and forth; he'd swing from topic to topic as if it was the only way to cross the jungle of his thoughts.