You are an author! You will be a published author. Take pride in that, and present only your best work. Then, continue to improve, so your best gets even better.

My father moved out a week later. I hugged him at our front door and couldn't bear to watch him leave with so much luggage.

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

Success is not success in an individual endeavor. Success is simply to practice the dharma impeccably.

I just want to let everyone know I'm not a murderer.

I find it very hard to sit down and create an idea or especially a new character on command. Usually my characters evolve by accident out of some story context.

Unforgiveness is spiritual filthiness, so get washed in the water of God's Word to forgive and stay clean.

The environment is not just around you, it's passing through you.

The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

Your whole life informs your eye.