Depression is always in the details.

I admit that for me love goes deeper than the struggle, or maybe what I mean is, love is the deeper struggle.

It's always gratifying to hear from a passionate reader, and as a longtime educator, I'm especially pleased and heartened when that reader is a young student who is inspired to write me and let me know that my book has helped him or her find her way.

I think it is important to know how to teach new material to help young people grow and learn.

A book does not discriminate against any reader. All are welcome at the table of literature.

I grew up in a dictatorship, where you couldn't talk about difficult situations - there was this culture of silence. We would run into a problem and have no one to talk to.

There is no end to what can be said about the world