If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference

I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.

I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.

I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.