When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth.

I am not alone in bearing grudges against reviewers who have doomed a book's chances because they've missed the point, the tone, everything.

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

Women are obviously much more discriminated against than men in many ways.

You put a character out there and you're in their power. You're in trouble if they're in yours.

the real killer was when you married the wrong person but had the right children.

Clouds are poems, and the most moving poems linger on the blackboard so long, written in cursive so lovely, they also exist inside our fingertips. We never really erase them at the end of the lesson.