I will have to rely on that painful teacher, experience.

In a novel, you have space to develop a character or a scene. You don't have that luxury in a 700-800-word picture book.

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.