In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.

I have learned that there is more power in a good strong hug than in a thousand meaningful words.

love is reliable. infatuation is temporary.

No mother should lose her child.

The only language she could speak was grief. How could he not know that? Instead, she said, "I love you." She did. She loved him. But even that didn't feel like anything anymore.

Time doesn't heal, I had learned, it just keeps moving. And it takes us with it.

A sibling is the lens through which you see your childhood.

Don't waste your one beautiful life.

Grief doesn't have a plot. It isn't smooth. There is no beginning and middle and end.

Even now, there are still days so beautiful, I almost believe in God.

I am the woman with the cool vintage glasses... I am the proud wife beside her husband... I am the writer who has written a new novel.

How magical can a person be when she is blessed with infinite kindness?

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

I'm not supposed to have chocolate before dinner.

What a man wishes, he will believe.

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

I was Ashallayn'darkmyr Tallyn, son of Mab, former prince of the Unseelie Court, and I was not afraid of a witch on a broom.

Shilo, when I was young, I used to call you name.

It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human-literacy. Computers have to become human-literate.

I enjoy going back and forth between plays and novels. It's like having a wife and a mistress. Books are the wife; plays, the mistress.