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

We're all moons. Sometimes our dark sides overshadow our light.

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

Life is the soil, our choices and actions the sun and rain, but our dreams are the seeds.

The sin of the desert is knowing where the water is and not sharing it.

There are people I've yet to meet who are waiting for my path to intersect with theirs, so they can complete their own journeys. I don't know who or where they are, but I know for certain that they are waiting.

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.