A funny line can never exist on its own. It needs to be surrounded by mood and circumstances.

As the most recently arrived to earthly life, children can seem in lingering possession of some heavenly lidless eye.

Pleasantness was the machismo of the Midwest. There was something athletic about it. You flexed your face into a smile and let it hover there like the dare of a cat.

It was part of being a girl in the '60s that you were creative.

Sometimes I ask myself if writing novels is even respectable.

Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.

One should never turn one's back on a vivid imagination.