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.

I have always been amazed guys read my books and seem to enjoy them. Because I've raised boys, I like to think I can get inside a guy's mind. I try and make the boys talk like guys, sound like guys and react like guys.

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.

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.

For as long as the world spins and the earth is green with new wood, she will lie in this box and not in my arms.

When my grandmother was alive, she used to tell me that every time God creates a soul in heaven, he creates another to become its special mate. And that once we're born, we begin our search for our soul mate, the one person who's the perfect fit for our mind and body. They lucky oens find each other.

People can't help the way they look, just the way they act.