My dad was a cross-country truck driver.

A lot of people are afraid of dolls - everybody remembers Chucky.

When I first came to New York, I would scream like a girl and run to the other side of the street if there was a pigeon. Now I can face off with a pigeon.

Everyone has a ghost story, or at least thats how it has always seemed to me.

My first day as an intern in the books department at Cosmopolitan also happened to be the day the O.J. Simpson verdict was announced.

My writing is sort of Sidney Sheldon meets Anne Tyler.

Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.

Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it is getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.

I have nothing to offer but blood toil tears and sweat.

Money is the mother's milk of politics.

Court-virtues bear, like gems, the highest rate, Born where Heav'n influence scarce can penetrate. In life's low vale, the soil the virtues like, They please as beauties, here as wonders strike.

What paper planes and empty seats most have in common is that they are best made by children still learning how to ride things out.

It's part of a cycle of stories I'm writing where I deconstruct classic science fiction.

At the time we are focusing our efforts primarily on building shelters for refugees. Homelessness in Afghanistan is a huge problem.

Throw away sacredness and wisdom and people will be one hundred times happier.

Kids everywhere need to feel safe, hopeful, connected and appreciated.