The dead have never bothered me. It's the living that I fear.

If everybody, every day, would try to do one thing that pulls them beyond themselves the world will start being a better place.

rain slowly slides down the glass as if the night is crying.

When I was in second grade, my mother moved from Miami to this evangelical conservative environment in western North Carolina, two miles down the road from Billy Graham and his wife, Ruth.

And suddenly the world was filled with wooden faces and flat voices - and, you were alone.

But when I was a little kid, I was always writing stories and illustrating little books that I would create.

America is the most violent democracy in the world. It's something that's met with great shock, horror, and mystery when I travel to other countries. They ask, Why are there so many shootings in America? Why does everyone own a gun?