As far as young kids go, my primary interest is to get parents to read to their kids. That’s about the most you can do, I think.

I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

How did you-"Fool your guards? They're not very good, the forgot to check the ceiling for spiders."Valek grinned. His angular face softened.

Sometimes we have to get out of our own way.

A bear does not change its nature because it shed its fur.

It's not the size of the girl in the fight that counts... it's the size of the fight in the girl! -MISS MARVEL

Are we slaves of our pasts? or can we rise above it?

Institutions and cultures are not immortal. Humans, Christian and non-Christian, are. Compared to us, our country is a gnat.

The very act of drawing an object, however badly, swiftly takes the drawer from a woolly sense of what the object looks like to a precise awareness of its component parts and particularities.

I suppose I felt guilty not to be doing something more important, more political. So in a way I am trying to use the company for these other activities.

I love running, swimming and riding, sleeping and eating, reading and loving things that everybody likes

Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar.