Don't let thoughts of me hold you back. Just do what you want to do. Otherwise, I might end up taking you with me, and that is the one thing I don't want to do. I don't want to interfere with your life.

Curiosity can bring guts out of hiding at times, maybe even get them going. But curiosity usually evaporates. Gust have to go for the long haul. Curiosity's like a fun friend you can't really trust. It turns you on and then it leaves you to make it on your own - with whatever guts you can muster

Results aside, the ability to have complete faith in another human being is one of the finest qualities a person can possess.

Sometimes it's not the people who change, it's the mask that falls off.

I have no idea! I have been writing for 35 years and from the beginning up to now the situation's almost the same. I'm kind of an ugly duckling. Always the duckling, never the swan.

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself.

I'd be smiling and chatting away, and my mind would be floating around somewhere else, like a balloon with a broken string.