Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

There is a treadmill quality to workaholism.

Did you write today? Then you're a writer today.

Money cannot fill an empty soul.

Workaholism is a block, not a building block.

As a writer, I find holidays often disturbing, not liberating, in their disruption of tempo, their open-ended time.