Even if only one person’s respect for animals increases, then writing Talon would have been worthwhile.

A lot of the names in Talon reference other people or events. For example Amelia, the giant Eagle, was a “tip of my hat” to the extraordinary aviator Amelia Earhart. Both love(d) to fly!

Sometimes later becomes never. Do it now.

At some point in my early forties I realized that my primary goal in just about any verbal exchange is to lighten the mood.

Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.

It was quite strange, because it's quite different from singing, although it's quite natural because you're used to performing or acting on stage.

I've seen schizophrenics who are so hopeless, you couldn't cheer them, and their lives are miserable and they end up as suicides. That's not right.

I'd love to direct commercials on Caribbean beacheswith luscious women rubbing on suntan lotion, but all I get arethese documentary-type things.

I try to keep a balance between conceptional or intellectual comprehension and emotional understanding.

We hear the word Warrior used to describe women and men who show up, give their very best, and refuse to quit until the goal is reached.

I think that The Outsiders was meant to be written, and I was just picked to write it.

95% on content and the computer language remains the same.