Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Words are, quite simply, weapons. How a person or an act or a thought looks depends entirely upon how - and by whom - it is described.

Gripping. Fascinating. Entrancing. The Vesuvius Isotope is 2013's Top Thriller!

Oh, the joys of baseball, manly men in tight pants.

One of the fruits of longevity is establishing a reputation you may not deserve.

Mary Daheim writes with wit, wisdom, and a big heart. I love her books.

Be music always. Keep changing the keys, tones, pitch, and volume of each of the songs you create along your life's journey and play on.

The Maestro spoke again. "When we are not, at what point do we become?" I could not reply. For I had grasped no shape of his thoughts. I understood neither what he said nor his intent behind it.

A house is your third skin, after the skin made of flesh and clothing.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

Hubble is very close to my heart, and going back to Hubble, because I was there once already in 1993, is really a great privilege for me.

Go somewhere. Do something. How can you stay in one spot when the world is so big

Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it.

I couldn't kill a fly.