At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

True love is night jasmine, a diamond in darkness, the heartbeat no cardiologist has ever heard. It is the most common of miracles, fashioned of fleecy clouds - a handful of stars tossed into the night sky.

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few stories are slightly out of line. no one will notice. But when the building is 18 or 20 stories high, everyone will see that it tilts.

Gimme: an agreement between two losers who can't putt.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

I can look at my books with pleasure from a distance. Four feet is close enough.