If I weren't a writer, I'd be a psychiatrist.

The past is history. The future is a mystery. The present is a gift.

I don't think of my characters as people I create, I think of them more as people I have met and whom I'm exploring on the page. I don't actually think of myself as having 'created' any of these people.

It's strange how memory gets twisted and pulled like taffy in its retelling, how a single event can mean something different to everyone present.

Even if someone is overcome with rage, it takes amazing arrogance to kill.

Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.

We may say we're looking for love, following dreams, chasing the dollar, but aren't we just looking for a place where we belong? A place where our thoughts, feelings, and fears are understood? - Ridley Jones