As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not displaying emotions.

I've no desire to start a movement, to be the first name on an open petition, or to be the poster child for disgruntled writers.

Barack Obama is the New Generation and the hot light of a dawn that goes way beyond clever talk of morning in America.

As a coping mechanism, or as a way to make a little hard count by shilling demons in the shadows, I try not to belittle the thought process of the conspiracy theorists. As a cocktail waitress in Vegas once schooled me: never get down on anybody else's hustle.

With fear of stating the obvious: Freedom belongs to 'We the People,' not 'They the Politicians.'

For every horrific event, something beautiful happens.

Bigots are actually funny to me in the way that people who still wear parachute pants give me a chuckle.