Feeding teenage boys was like filling a bathtub with a grapefruit spoon.
Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.
Promise Me
The cardinal rule: You never have to take back words you don't say.
The hunchback sees the hump of others - never his own.
We humans can't see straight. We are always biased. We always protect our own interests.
Yvonne started humming the QuickGo jingle, one of those torturous tunes that enters through the ear canal and proceeds to ricochet around the skull in search of an escape route it will never find.
A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste but you don't want to see how it was made.
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 someone in the world you care about more than anything.
The state of New Jersey is really two places - terrible cities and wonderful suburbs. I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves. It's very romantic in that way, but a bit naive. I like to play with that in my work.
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
I'd never had money growing up, and it's never been that important to me, except maybe to take our kids on a nice vacation or something like that.