On the elusive gift of blending austerity of craft with elasticity of allure.

I never really knew I wanted to 'be' a writer, but I was always writing from a very young age. It became more conscious as an ideal when I was in my twenties.

The joyous fulfillment of your sex : the sacred duties of beloved wife, and helpmeet, and mother. In opposition to the vulgar and mercantile hurly-burly of the great world, the idyllic pleasures of the domestic hearth-the which, I firmly believe, make of one small room an everywhere, indeed; and provide us with that small measure of bliss, which is, if we are greatly fortunate, and deserving, Our Lord's promise to us, of the Heaven to come.

I could EAT YOUR HEART & asshole you'd never know it.

Novels begin, not on the page, but in meditation and day-dreaming - In thinking, not writing.

Life is like boxing in many unsettling respects. But boxing is only like boxing.

Tragedy is the highest form of art.