All the effort in the world won't matter if you're not inspired.

When you don't share your problems, you resent hearing the problems of other people.

It takes a lot to get people talking in airplanes. But once they start talking, you just can't shut them up.

If you don't know what you want, you end up with a lot you don't.

I feel my heart ache, but I've forgotten what that feeling means.

I always thought I'd write when I retired - when I turned 65. But by the time I was 33, to tell you the truth, I was a little bored with drugs and sex, and I thought I'd do the writing thing.

Part of her doing suicide intervention is my caseworker has to mix me another gin and tonic.