Don't be married to a line or verse if it can't rhyme, fit the meter, or doesn't fit the outline.

Eating is our earliest metaphor, preceding our consciousness of gender difference, race, nationality, and language. We eat before we talk.

I particularly like Twitter, because it's short and can be very funny and informative. It's a little bit like having your own radio program.

You think you have the amount of money that is your credit limit. We're just wired to think that, you know? Until the bill arrives - a sobering moment - you think you're richer than you are.

Your friend is intellectually honourable," Jimmy's mother would say. "He doesn't lie to himself.

Reading ... changes you. You aren't the same person after you've read a particular book as you were before, and you will read the next book, unless both are Harlequin Romances, in a slightly different way.

I'm not an activist by nature. I am suspicious of Utopian thinking and equally suspicious of its alternate. I would prefer to stay in the Writing Burrow and play with my imaginary friends and enemies. I get sucked into these things.