There is something I have noticed about desire, that it opens the eyes and strikes them blind at the same time.

Progressivism is usually seen as a stepping back from individualism into a progressive community...

In December 1998, I considered myself an expert on love. I was almost a year into a relationship, one that had grown more slowly than I had wished, but once it flowered it was much more stimulating than any marriage or relationship I had known.

Good intentions are wicked! As far as I can see, all they lead to are lies and delusions.

Eavesdrop and write it down from memory - gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop!

I wrote the Dickens book because I loved Dickens, not because I felt a kinship with him, but after writing the book it seemed to me that there was at least one similarity between us and that was that Dickens loved to write and wrote with the ease and conviction of breathing. Me, too.

Hungry ears are sharp ones.