Everybody dies; that's a fact. Sometimes it blindsides people. Sometimes people get a glimpse of the big picture and decide to cheat.

In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.

You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

The stems stood tall and straight, one series arranged in a single line, the other in a crudely shaped heart, the final one in the shape of the letter U. I love you.

I wanted to write about the third world and had the opportunity to go live in the trenches, so to speak.

So this is always the key: you have to write the book you love, the book that's alive in your heart. That's the one you have to write.

Most people believe they have a clear idea of what's right and wrong. Many say they know how they'll act, or how they'll handle an extreme situation. But to be honest, no one knows. Not reallyBecause none of us truly knows what we'll do when the circumstances become so overwhelming and complex that we can't even tell right from wrong.