It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.
The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.
I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.
Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.
A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.
Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.