Government is like junior high. Your status depends upon whom you're able to persecute.

Just because others have it worse doesn’t mean you have to suffer in silence.

His experience and training should have taught him that families are the cauldrons in which violence is brewed. (144)

I would never have been a novelist without working as a psychologist...it was a great education in human nature.

Time spent researching varies from book to book. Some novels require months, even years of research, others very little. I try to do most of my research before I begin but inevitably questions emerge during the writing.

Therapist’s dilemma: those who need help the most, run the farthest from it.

The science of psychotherapy is knowing what to say, the art is knowing when to say it. (36)