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

I did not want to live out my life in the strenuous effort to hold a ghost world together. It was plain as the stars that time herself moved in grand tidal sweeps rather than the tick-tocks we suffocate within, and that I must reshape myself to fully inhabit the earth rather than dawdle in the sump of my foibles.

That is simply the most beautiful publishing office in the world, with that cranky old building in that wonderful park.

I thought, frankly, that it would be more pleasant to write a memoir than it was.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

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.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, or they become legends.