We know that everything in our lives is complex and gray.
The first sip of beer on a hot day is like that first finger-dip when you open a new jar of peanut butter.
That’s the problem with falling in love. It makes you start talking like a bad country song
Still, death is a great teacher. It's just too harsh.I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy I mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that I could pass on to you. I didn't. The clich...
Obsession does not seek out problems and correct them; it manufactures them out of nothing, feeds them, makes them stronger.
I wish i could tell you that through the tragedy i mined some undiscovered, life-altering absolute that i could pass on to you.I didn't.The cliches apply-people are what count,life is precious,materia...
I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear driv...
If I'm not writing well, I'm not happy. If I'm not spending enough time with my family, I'm not happy. If I'm not connecting to friends or if I don't work out enough... You get the point. Everything h...
No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a...
When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry. —Yiddish proverb
When Myron was ten years old, his father had taken him and his younger brother, Brad, to a game. Brad was five at the time. Dad had secured
Those who had easy answers, be they on the right or the left, were always wrong. The world is complex. It is never one-size-fits-all.
The sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. Lucy knows that, of course. You can't prepare for real...
The Bad Man isn’t lurking in playgrounds, kiddies. He lives in your house.
Mark’s shots fell through the metallic hoop, but how many of them have that kind of accuracy?
I said everyone looks happy. That was kinda my point. If you judge the world by Facebook, you wonder why so many people take Prozac.
Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is so...
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister I don't write the book with the big serial kil...
You bring your own weather to the picnic.
They say that happens a lot with the elderly that to paraphrase Springsteen two hearts become one. When one dies, the other follows.