You spend your life getting walked on, you learn to recognize the tread.

I'm a barrel of monkeys, kid, though mostly I figure monkeys stuck in a barrel are just going to be pissed off.

Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.

i had that hole in me. that empty space...she put it in me, you filled it...she was part of my life. you are my life. if i have a regret, it,s that even for an instant you could think otherwise. or that i allowed you to. -Roarke

I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.

I generally write a first draft that's pretty lean. Just get the story down.

My own sense of family, where I came from and what I made for myself is an important part of my life.