There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

In this life we love who we love. There were some stories in which facts were very nearly irrelevant.

I was always on time, I did my work to exact specifications, I spoke when spoken to.

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend.

Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

I am sure every writer has this and probably every newscaster, that people are always coming up to me and saying, my daughter wants to do what you do, my godson, my tennis partner.