Serendipity. Look for something, find something else, and realize that what you've found is more suited to your needs than what you thought you were looking for.

When you get older, keeping the private stuff private seems less important.

It's the easiest thing in the world to know God's will. You just wait and see what happens, and that's it.

Stories are like assholes. Everybody's got one and most of 'em stink.

I’ve tried writing and the sentences come out fine, but I write a few pages and I don’t want to go on.

As a friend of mine, herself a writer, says, 'People who spend the most meaningful hours of their lives in the exclusive company of imaginary people are apt to be a little strange'

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don’t have to give a rat’s ass about.