“I would say about 80% of my writing (including posts and blogs), has to do with unresolved anger and that's just fine with me”

“I'm not a lawyer, but I play one in my novel COPYRIGHT. I also play a serial rapist, a drug addict, a teenage boy and lesbian model.”

“It's simply impossible for me to filter my thoughts and feelings. I tell it from my point of view. I'm an open book.”

“Never judge a person until you've walked a mile in their busted up shoes and haven't had any money for medication for two weeks.”

“I don't need to write a memoir of my life. All you need to do is read one of my books. I'm there.”

“All writers are different, each have their own artist way they go about telling a story. The only thing they have in common, is they write.”

“Pain is not the same as suffering. Left to itself, the body discharges pain spontaneously, letting go of it the moment that the underlying cause is healed. Suffering is pain that we hold on to. It ...”

“In pleasant peace and security How suddenly the soul in a man begins to die He shall look up above the stalled oxen Envying the cruel falcon, And dig under the straw for a stone To bruise himself on.”

“It is amazing, though, what pains your subconscious will undergo in achieve sustainable peace.”

“With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.”

“Then Cassie told her story. The feeling was like gathering up everything she's ever done or felt or known up to that moment and tying it into a ball and pitching it with all her might as far away a...”

“Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of makin...”