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

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

The characters emerge from my rather twisted mind. That's another enjoyable part of the job making stuff up.

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

The stress of grad school can drive anyone temporarily mad.

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