I'm always aware that I risk being taken for a neurasthenic prima donna when I explain to someone who wants 'just a little' of my time that five minutes of the wrong kind of distraction can ruin a working day.

During the act of writing I have told myself something that I didn't know I knew.

At times ... one is downright thankful for the self-absorption of other people.

Negative people present us with an accelereted personal growth opportunity.

Hope does not necessarily have to take an object.

I read constantly. If I don't have a good book, I'm beside myself.

Much of the activity we think of as writing is, actually, getting ready to write.