I am single and childless, but I have lots of friends and I am an aunt to three lovely children.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

What happens when you pray for an angel and get a vampire instead? R E Mullins

It is not about whether you call yourself a leader or not. It is about what you have to show to people as a leader. Leadership is contagious, you carry it and share it.

Hungry for what? Money? No. Power? Over people? That was like having power over clams.

Better to be called something positive and inspirational than something negative.

I like violence to be upsetting. The only reason to do it subtley is if doing it subtley makes it more effective somehow.

I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.

I mean, I have worked out. I've always worked out a little, you know, when I felt it was, like... time.

Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

Even the stoics agree that certainty is very hard to come at; that our assent is worth little, for where is infallibility to be found?

You give Frost a message from me. You tell him it's open season on all suckheads.