I see colors like you hear jet planes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

If you want to write about people, you can make it up. But if you spend time talking to someone and examining what it is you want to write about, you discover a level of detail that you wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

I can remember exactly where I sat when my teacher first read Roald Dahl's 'James and the Giant Peach'.

The key thing is managed awareness of your role in the world and history. Think too much and you know you are nothing. Think just enough and you know you are small, but important to some. That's the best you can do.

She felt some measure of relief knowing that in the very least, on the open road she would have some time to think.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.