It was never the right time or it was always the right time, depending on how you looked at it.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

If I had problems, I kept them to myself. I didn't make a scene.

One must not be shy where language is concerned.

I think, if you want to grow a novelist, for that person to have a lot of boring time trying to entertain themselves is very important.

I can't write the book I want to write, but I can and will write the book I am capable of writing.

It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.