I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

It's been great getting better with you.

I think of how and why and what happened and the thoughts come easily, but the answers don't.

Life, not death, is the great mystery you must confront.

Its not just a smile of momentary happiness. When it disappears from my face, it will stay with me.

America was first colonized by Puritans. Most of our earliest immigrants, and many since, have come here in order to practice their religious beliefs as they please. Our culture has always been, and will most likely always be, profoundly influenced by religion.

I don't write with an outline. I don't often know what I'm going to do as I'm writing. And I do everything by feel and by instinct.