Now is almost always the better choice. You never know about later.

Mind who you love. For that matter, mind how you are loved.

All I meant was that people take their same old lives wherever they go. No place is perfect enough to strip you of that. And some places have a way of magnifying your demons, or of, I don't know, giving them pep pills.

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

And then there's the personal question so many of Lassie's fans want to ask: Is he allowed on the furniture? Of course he is-but, then, he's the one who paid for it.

Never talk yourself out of knowing you're in love or into thinking that you are.

My publisher is generous with deadlines, which are never set in stone. Some writers need that pressure, but I am more productive when there's less panic.