Never, never try to scope the market.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

I never discuss a novel while I'm writing it, for fear that talking about it will diminish my desire to write it.

The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.

I have avoided becoming stale by putting a little water on the plate, lying on the plate, and having myself refreshed in a toaster oven for 23 minutes once every month.