In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

...at it's best fiction is medicine.

It's only life. We all get through it.

Writing a novel is like making love, but it's also like having a tooth pulled. Pleasure and pain. Sometimes it's like making love while having a tooth pulled.

The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.