Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Laughter nibbled at my lips like tiny fish in warm water.

Didn't I say I'd always be your same stars? If you get to missing me, just look up.

I think every creative impulse that a working writer, or artist of any sort has, comes out of that dark old country where dreams come from.

I don't think you ever think of a big city as sweet or community, but there are cities that I think of as charming and particular and interesting cities. I live in one now, Charleston.

Life can only be kept by giving it away. But then it will bloom.

Anger is its own excuse and its own reward.