The reason to moderate is to avoid having to quit.

I couldn't run a tight schedule, and if you're any good at teaching, you get sucked dry because you like your students and you're trying to help them, but you don't have any time left to write yourself.

I don't know what psychotherapy does. I have been seeing the same person for 26 years now.

Life is sentimental. Why should I be cold and hard about it? That's the main content. The biggest thing in people's lives is their loves and dreams and visions, you know.

Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about. -- True North

You touch things lightly or deeply; you move along because life herself moves, and you can’t stop it.

The days are stacked against what we think we are.