Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.

The idea of being a novelist is really romantic, but it's kind of the same as being president of the United States - it's not gonna happen.

It has been a mistake living my life in the past. One cannot ride a horse backwards and still hold its reins.

Mr. Dallstrom is a bald, scarecrow of a man with a poochy stomache. Think of a pregnant Abraham Lincoln.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

The sweetness of reunion is the joy of heaven.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.