Why does everyone think that I am a cruel and insensitive man? I mean, come on, I have kids... on my desk in little jars!

The stories we hear in our childhood are the ones we remember all our lives.

A short story is a different thing all together - a short story is like a kiss in the dark from a stranger.

In these silences something may rise

It might be that the biggest division in the world isn't men and women but folks who like cats and folks who like dogs" - (L.T.'s Theory of Pets)

I start work around 8 a.m. and usually finish around noon. If there's more to do, I do it in the late afternoon, although that isn't prime time for me.

She had never dreamed there could be so much pain in a life when there was nothing physically wrong. She hurt all the time.