Rosie [her teenage daughter] had a secret life now, was putting together her own tribe, finding her identity there, and it was great to see, and it hurt like hell.

“Rosie had been a little girl with a dead dad, and there was no getting around t…”

“To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the r…”

“Sometimes this human stuff is slimy and pathetic...but better to feel it and ta…”

“To be a good writer, you not only have to write a great deal but you have to ca…”