That's the way I work. I get it all plotted in my mind, and then I write it down.

Guns are dangerous and damaging even when no one gets shot. They really do loom.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly, is always the love that is not returned.

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

I could teach. I could wait tables. I could cook in a restaurant. Food and teaching were the two skills I had.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.

Everybody believes in chance.