Try to develop actual work habits, and even though you have a busy life, try to reserve an hour, say - or more - a day to write. Some very good things have been written on an hour a day.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

In a country this large and a language even larger ... there ought to be a living for somebody who cares and wants to entertain and instruct a reader.

To be human is to be in the tense condition of a death-foreseeing, consciously libidinous animal. No other earthly creature suffers such a capacity for thought, such a complexity of envisioned but frustrated possibilities, such a troubling ability to question the tribal and biological imperatives.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

Appealingness is inversely proportional to attainability.

From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few.