Far more disturbing than any spook house at an amusement park is a ride through the old hometown if you've been away for years.

Learn to wait; invariably either things will change or your heart will.

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience.

Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

If I don't feel like writing today or for a few days, I don't. And I don't think about it. It is not an obligation-it is the greatest privilege.

How easily we ignore or forget the small kindnesses and considerations in life which are really the only everyday magic we witness on a regular basis. Just think- to make happiness out of nothing more than a few kind words or a generous gesture.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.