Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, "I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway."

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

I think we ought to give ourselves more time. We should be more patient with ourselves and with each other.

I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all.