There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.

Character is everything, especially these days when that's what publishers are asking for. Make sure that yours have child appeal. Also don't have a huge cast of characters. One or two is best, four, the maximum.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

The wren and the nightingale sound nothing alike, but think how dull the world would be without the songs of both birds.-Miss Kanagawa

Sir if I was your daughter I would wait until this train started again and throw myself in front of it!

I gotta pound the keys for the ideas to flow.

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.