“A novelist is similar to a triathlete. Train hard every day. You will be timed and measured. Budget to promote, grow, and be without fear.”

“When I grow up next year my life will be easy." Vanity”

“Change happens when people care."From my novel in progress, Eco-Terrorist”

“Being ready is everything.”

“Obviously, children die every day, and it is surely conceivable to every one of us that one of our children will pre-decease us. Nevertheless, it is the thing we most fear. It is the thing we in modern medicine devote our greatest energy toward preventing. In modern times, it still seems to most of us that the death of a child is a gross violation of the pact we have with our God. He gives us children. We should, therefore, be allowed to raise them. That is the natural order of the world.”

“From the earliest days, we knew that it was not possible to do good work with the little children without the help of their parents.”

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they want.”