Things musicals taught me: All your problems will go away if you sing about it.

Always good to take a look at the long list for the Mann Booker, for the Commonwealth. It gives you an overview.There is so much going on all over the world that it's impossible for one person to keep up. And I can't.

The astrologers would tell that the U.S. is ruled by fire and Canada is ruled by water. Short version: You pep us up, we cool you down.

Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.

But most hearts say, I want, I want, I want, I want. My heart is more duplicitous, though no twin as I once thought. It says, I want, I don't want, I want, and then a pause. It forces me to listen.

Blank pages inspire me with terror.

Optimism means better than reality; pessimism means worse than reality. I'm a realist.