I'm sorry. It's my fault. How do I make it right?

Whatever news we get about the scans, I’m not going to die when we hear it. I won’t die the next day, or the day after that, or the day after that. So today, right now, well this is a wonderful day. And I want you to know how much I’m enjoying it.” I thought about that, and about Jai’s smile. I knew then. That’s the way the rest of my life would need to be lived.

There's a lot of talk these days about giving children self-esteem. It's not something you can give; it's something they have to build.

The most difficult part of writing a book is not devising a plot which will captivate the reader. It's not developing characters the reader will have strong feelings for or against. It is not finding a setting which will take the reader to a place he or she as never been. It is not the research, whether in fiction or non-fiction. The most difficult task facing a writer is to find the voice in which to tell the story.

If we had to vanish tomorrow, what would we want as our legacy?

The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!

The size of your audience doesn't matter. What's important is that your audience is listening.