It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.