I thought that we were all like trees, flexible youths, saplings, who grow up heavy and stiff, spread seeds and get chopped down and turned into note….

Steve Yarbrough is a masterful storyteller-one of our finest-and Safe from the Neighbors is a masterpiece. . . . This is a spellbinding, powerful nov….

I feel very protective in the first draft, when all the pieces are coming together. I work in a way that is not linear or chronological at all, even ….

If a nuclear disaster occurred, and you had to live out those final painful days just stretched out somewhere thinking about your life--This is who I….

For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision o….

The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it a….

Certainly if I were to think in terms of a field that would have required a different mode of education, I think I would have leaned in the direction….

I think that marriage vows should include an escape clause that says the contract is broken if one party ups and makes a big switch in religion or po….

We used to all come outside when the streetlights came on and prowl the neighborhood in a pack, a herd of kids on banana-seat bikes and minibikes. Th….

You will never be as smart as your subconscious..

Humor - I see it as a survival skill..

There is a choice to make, a chance to take..

Building a dollhouse is a lot like writing a novel because you are God of the Universe..