One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if they were hated by their mother or father, your marriage will pay for it in ways both obvious and subtle. When the chips are down, when someone is sick or loses their job or gets scared, the old patterns will kick in and he will treat you the way he treated his mother or the way she treated him.

The first thing a writer has to do is find another source of income. Then, after you have begged, borrowed, stolen or saved up the money to give you time to write and you spend all of it staying alive while you write, and you write your heart out, after all that, maybe no one will publish it, and if they publish it, maybe no one will read it. That is the hard truth, that is what it means to be a writer.

All you have to do to educate a child is leave him alone and teach him to read. The rest is brainwashing.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

Dance in the fullness of time.