Whatever is not an energy source, is an energy sink.

The incidence of violent brand-loyalty to one's own current dogma has risen.

It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover.

Everything you study, everything you learn, makes you a better writer, because you have more understanding of how things work.

In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

Nobody can live on a bridge or plant potatoes but it is fine for comings and goings, meetings, partings and long views and a real connection to someplace else where you may in the crazy weathers of struggle how and again want to be.

Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.