If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write.

Fools are the only folk on the earth who can absolutely count on getting what they deserve.

Everyone needs a hobby, he said. And everyone needs a miracle or two, just to prove life is more than just one long trudge from the cradle to the grave.

Politics always change. Stories never do.

...writing fiction...is no job for intellectual cowards.

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.