Your boyfriend had a dream about potatoes and you're asking me to interpret it? I'm just old. Being old doesn't mean you know more; it means you ate enough fiber.

You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip.

I read less of everything now. With only fond memories of others' work, it will be interesting to give my own journal writing a try now.

People are always waiting to be discovered.

A short story is a sprint, a novel is a marathon. Sprinters have seconds to get from here to there and then they are finished. Marathoners have to carefully pace themselves so that they don't run out of energy (or in the case of the novelist-- ideas) because they have so far to run. To mix the metaphor, writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

Salzburg... is a mountain town with a rushing river running right through the center, everything in the rain various shades of green and brown.