Success produces success, just as money produces money.

In the absence of touching and being touched, people of all ages can sicken and grow touched starved. Touch seems to be as essential as sunlight.

... love is an act of sedition, a revolt against reason, an uprising in the body politic, a private mutiny.

I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Writer's block is a luxury most people with deadlines don't have.

The knowing, I told myself, is only a vapor of the mind, and yet it can wreck havok with one's sanity.

History is an agreed-upon fiction.