I'm an e-mail junkie though I'm trying to read my in-box only twice a day and to answer all at once.

The best books come from someplace deep inside.... Become emotionally involved. If you don't care about your characters, your readers won't either.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

I have like two dreams a week that I have to write a paper that I'm late with or that I've gone back to high school and have to do that in addition to my current job.

We must, we must, we must increase our bust.

We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?

A person without curiosity may as well be dead.