This is a wonderful joke to play upon a prisoner, to promise forgiveness.

I was born in Philadelphia and currently live in Minneapolis. I write for both children and adults.

There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.

Once upon a time," he said out loud to the darkness. He said these words because they were the best, the most powerful words that he knew and just the saying of them comforted him.

There is nothing sweeter in this sad world than the sound of someone you love calling your name.

When we read together, we connect. Together, we see the world. Together, we see one another.

Reading should not be presented to children as a chore or duty. It should be offered to them as a precious gift.

The undoing is almost always more difficult than the doing.

You must be filled with expectancy. You must be awash in hope. You must wonder who will love you, whom you will love next.

It is important that you say what you mean to say. Time is too short. You must speak the words that matter.

The world is dark, and light is precious. Come closer, dear reader. You must trust me. I am telling you a story.

Self pride hinders the soul from flourishing,

Sometimes it's good to lose something/someone. Because we get what we deserve, not what we desire for.

I want everyone to stop telling me to lower my expectations.

After all my erstwhile dear my no longer cherished need we say it was no love just because it perished?

The world today is so full of violence, obscenity, war, the failure of political systems. I try to make movies that make people a bit more confident. But that doesn't mean being sugary.

Premature burial works just fine as a cure for adolescence.

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

From a really young age, I was into female empowerment and supporting the underdog. Right now, I'm into female vengeance.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.

This is one of his most human and most amusing and witty novels. The characters are very Indian. I decided that I wanted to do a comedy, so this was just the right one.