White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

I wish I could remember where I put things. I spend half my life looking for my keys. With the other half I look for my glasses.

All food starting with p is comfort food: pasta, potato chips, pretzels, peanut butter, pastrami, Pizza, pastry.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I spent 10 years as a marketing manager. I've found my experience in the financial world invaluable background for writing about white-collar crimes.

The possibility of bringing white-collar criminals to justice is ever receding over the horizon.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I live and die with the Chicago Cubs

I have a friend who lives in the South Side of Chicago. I helped out at a church charity there where they try to give a bit of cohesion to a desperate area. Everyone was very welcoming

Capo, my first golden retriever, so loved to swim she once jumped off a cliff to get into Lake Superior.

Reviewers said Ghost Country was rich, astonishing and affecting in the way it blended comedy, magic, and a gritty urban realism in a breathtaking ride along Chicago's mean streets.

Separation Your absence has gone through me Like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.

We need to grow from faith to faith so that we can have victory over the world

Her love was old but her methods were original.

Unencountered Language is the court and spark between words we recognize and those we don't.

Man is obviously made for thinking. Therein lies all his dignity and his merit; and his whole duty is to think as he ought.

What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

What you notice is the loneliness. Daniel started to isolate himself, because it hurt less than being pushed away.

I look for every opportunity to mix comedy and horror and tragedy. I love catching audiences off-guard.

There was a possibility I could have been under surveillance.