Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.

You learn to write by doing it.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover. And then, in the midst of near despair, something has happened beneath the surface. A bright little flashing fish of hope has flicked silver fins and the water is bright and suddenly I am returned to a state of love again - till next time.

Why does anybody tell a story? It does indeed have something to do with faith. Faith that the universe has meaning, that our little human lives are not irrelevant, that what we choose or say or do matters, matters cosmically.

Art should communicate with as many people as possible.