Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Cherie, keep walking. Shut your eyes. We are headed for the bridge. We are going to cross it.

A good, sympathetic review is always a wonderful surprise.

The American dream is a multi-metaphor made up of distinct regions. Many regions of this country are almost like different countries. Even in one state, northern and southern California are like two separate countries.

On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

All that matters in life is forging deep ties of love and family and friends. Writing and reading come later.

A writer who has published as many books as I have has developed, of necessity, a hide like a rhino's, while inside there dwells a frail, hopeful butterfly of a spirit.