If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance.

I would welcome a friendship with Lynne Hinton. I would welcome an invitation to sit down at her table, but mostly I would welcome her next book.

It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Forgive yourself - no one else will.

I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick.

Life sometimes gives you a second chance.