Sometimes you want to hear your own mother's voice.

That's how you know you really trust someone, I think; when you don't have to talk all the time to make sure they still like you or prove that you have interesting stuff to say.

When the reader and one narrator know something the other narrator does not, the opportunities for suspense and plot development and the shifting of reader sympathies get really interesting.

The kind of life I want is to be a person who would get a personal note every day.

Try a little tenderness.

I remember being in high school and listening to Vivaldi's 'Winter' and being so overwhelmed with emotion.

It makes me think of Lazarus. He must have had those shadows after his miracle. You don't spend time in the tomb without it changing you, and everyone who was waiting for you to come out.

I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.

Life was mostly made up of things you couldn’t control, full of surprises, and they weren’t always good. Life wasn’t what you made it. You were what life made you.

Because love, love is never finished. It circles and circles, the memories out of order and not always complete.

When the remembering was done, the forgetting could begin.

Children playing while in the background the TV blares with screams, gunfire and rape-murder scenes. It seeps in.

But easy's like, who cares? Easy's like, how much is easy going to get you?

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Existence is the awareness of awareness.

There is never a bad time to start a business - unless you want to start a mediocre one.

Come on now! How could you be me and want to be someone else?

After a hurricane, comes a rainbow.

Every business is a service business. Does your service put a smile on the customer's face?

It is the characteristic of a weak and diseased mind to fear the unfamiliar.