The good thing about writing books is that you can dream while you are awake. If it’s a real dream, you cannot control it. When writing the book, you are awake; you can choose the time, the length, everything. I write for four or five hours in the morning and when the time comes, I stop. I can continue the next day. If it’s a real dream, you can’t do that.

Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

It's because of you when I'm in bed in the morning that I can wind my spring and tell myself I have to live another good day.

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live.

Being active every day makes it easier to hear that inner voice.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

she was beautiful and seemingly quite intelligent, what with her pentameter search system. There wasn't a reason in the world not to find her appealing.