I write slowly by hand. Publishing is effectively bankrupt for you unless you are Danielle Steele. It takes a year to write book and advances are going down or disappearing.

Nothing you write is ever lost to you. At some other level your mind is working on it.

Driving me away is easier than saying goodbye.

Turning fifty ... is like flying: hours of boredom punctuated by moments of sheer terror.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Dogs come into our lives to teach us about love and loyalty. They depart to teach us about loss. A new dog never replaces an old dog; it merely expands the heart. If you have loved many dogs, your heart is very big.

Is there a phrase in the English language more fraught with menace than a tax audit?