Success sometimes may be defined as a disaster put on hold. Qualified. Has to be.

The solitude of writing is also quite frightening. It's quite close to madness, one just disappears for a day and loses touch.

It was a miracle; it was all a miracle: and one ought to have known, from the sufferings of saints, that miracles are horror.

People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

Music has no limits of a life-span.

Written words still have the amazing power to bring out the best and worst of human nature

September 2001. A sunny day in New York. Many of us who are writers were at work on the transformation of life into a poem, story, a chapter of a novel, when terror pounced from the sky, and the world made witness to it.