I didn't seem to have that effect on anyone but it would have been a waste for both of us to be saints.

If you have the patience to wait and watch, history will reshape truth (weakest of all forces, and weightless) in the image of opinion. What really happened will cease to matter and, eventually, cease to exist.

The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.

I give thanks for all that has passed, for all that is passing, and for all that is yet to come.

The real truth is that the war didn't have much to do with it except that it provided a perfect limbo in which two people who were too young and too related could start kissing without anything or anyone making us stop.

Ask any comedian, tennis player, chef. Timing is everything.

Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.