Sometimes you just have to reach out and grab what you want, even when they tell you not to. This is something that I've struggled with my whole life long.

Don't ever admit you know a thing about cooking or it'll be used against you.

the process of a book's coming to life is not fully complete until your imagination meets mine on the page. The words evoke pictures and something altogether new is created, something different from the limits of my own skills and imagination. Something that is a marriage between your heart, mind, and body - and mine.

Sadness can find you anywhere, anytime, so you better have fun when you can.

Sometimes lost treasures can be reclaimed.

Flowers heal me. Tulips make me happy. I keep myself surrounded by them as soon as they start coming to the island from Canada, and after that when they come from the fields in La Connor, not far from where I live.

It's life. You don't figure it out. You just climb up on the beast and ride.