We have good people. We have selfless people. We have great leaders.

I don't really get romance. Bring me fish or moose, not flowers.

Once your writing is out there, you can't control how other people perceive it. All you can do is stand in your truth.

I was born on the same day as Edgar Allan Poe and Dolly Parton: January 19. I am absolutely certain that this affects my writing in some way.

Autumn. Pretty leaves, pumpkin pie and sweaters. Perfect weather for reading. Winter is great but I hate shoveling.

I think we learn slowly as a group, but we learn. The ozone layer is still there.

I find myself moved by social justice issues. I'm not sure where that will lead me. I'm willing to nurture it.

We can be the new brand of self-extincting dinosaurs or we can evolve.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

I don't think anyone's normal.

In general, I'm careful when I'm dealing with subjects of deep cultural importance and write with abandon when I'm dealing with issues of personal dysfunction.

The unknown scares man, but those who confront it, will cease to fear it" (Rodolfo Rios Medina)

When you love someone, you’re capable of more than you know.

It is better to think of all the beauties of life than to be bitter.

The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.

Cheerfulness has a directly beneficial influence upon health.

Other people's children, like other people's love affairs, were so much less interesting than one's own.

Therefore run together as into one temple of God, as to one altar, as to one Jesus Christ, who came forth from one Father, and is with and has gone to one.

People are depressed for many reasons, one of which I think is how we have been taught to react to trauma, to stress.

The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?

The Gap has always been an iconic, go-to brand that reminds me of my childhood.