You see I thought love got easier over the years so it didn't hurt so bad when it hurt, or feel so good when it felt good. I thought it smoothed out and old people hardly noticed it. I thought it curled up and died, I guess. Now I saw it rear up like a whip and lash.

The length of sky is just about the size of my ignorance. Pure and wide.

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won't either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

But then as time passed, I learned the lesson that parents do early on. You fail sometimes. No matter how much you love your children, there are times you slip. There are moments you can't give, stutter, lose your temper, or simply lose face with the world, and you can't explain this to a child.

Don't read anything except what destroys the insulation between yourself and your experience.

I always have some way of putting the stories together that works for the book. I've always switched points of view in my books. I'm a Gemini.