The silence was part of the story I wanted to tell.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

My job is writing. I get paid to do it. When was the last time you heard someone challenge a doctor for making money off of cancer?

More than any other setting - more than battlefields or boardrooms or a spaceship headed for intergalactic travel - I'll put my money on the family to provide an endless source of comedy, tragedy and intrigue.

A good home must be made, not bought.

It's not only children who grow. Parents do too. As much as we watch to see what our children do with their lives, they are watching us to see what we do with ours. I can't tell my children to reach for the sun. All I can do is reach for it, myself.

Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.