If you want to publish two books a year under your own name and your publisher doesn't, maybe you need a different publisher.

...I felt fear enter the halls of my mind, but I didn't give it the keys to every room.

A long walk and grooming with a well-mannered dog is a Zen experience that leaves you refreshed and in a creative frame of mind.

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.

I always thought happiness was a choice and I always chose things that made me happy, and books were one of those.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.