What will happen can't be stopped. Aim for Grace.

You have to figure out who the right person is to tell the story. And often, people who are very self-aware will only sound as if they are pontificating if they tell the story.

People forget years and remember moments.

Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.

Nobody can assume that, to a writer, everything is off-limits.

Clichés so often befall vain people.

I think I write about things that are mysterious to me.