Sometimes you meet someone and you know that your life will be different from then on.

So far, I should be calm and more specifically not like that...Anything else? Would you like to do surgery on my personality? How about open-heart surgery? I´ve got some tools

Love is selfless, it is a weakness, a giving in, a constant falling.

If men are paid/praised more than women for the same work than it always pays to allow the man to have more freedom to pour himself into his work - think of athletes, actors over the age of 28, lawyers, accountants, college deans.

My work is to know the characters intimately and to tell their story.

Red Sox fans have been pushed to the brink over the years, but that's how faith grows stronger.

The lessons learned in journalism also apply. Writing for NPR has taught me to cut a piece in half and then in half again - without losing the essence. Apply that to the swollen prose of a bulky novel and you might reveal a beautiful work.