I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

here in the summer desert, winter found my blood

Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.

A plot without action is like pasta without garlic, like Dolly Parton without cleavage, and like a writer without his similes.