I was horrified in high school by the fate of the hanged maids at the end of the Odyssey; it seemed unfair to me, even then.

I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

Ignoring isn’t the same as ignorance, you have to work at it.

I was warped early by Ray Bradbury and Edgar Allan Poe. I was very fond of Franz Kafka.