I don't know what Alison [McGhee] thinks, but I very strongly doubt that we will ever see the parents of Bink or Gollie. However, I do think it would be fun to make Tony Fucile draw portraits of the parental units and have those portraits sitting on Bink's mantel or in Gollie's kitchen. Glowering. A little.

Go home and read to your adult. We forget how much we love to be read to.

Like most hearts, it was complicated, shaded with dark and dappled with light.

When you are a king, you may make as many ridiculous laws as you like. That is what being a king is all about.

It's hard not to immediately fall in love witha dog who has a good sense of humor.

Understand, I had absolutely no interest in writing; I wanted to be a Writer.

I am busier now than I ever imagined I would be, but I feel blessed in that I have found what I am supposed to be doing with my life. It's wonderful to tell stories and have people listen to them.