Stress is an ignorant state. It believes that everything is an emergency.

All of us can create if we allow ourselves to.

You don't know what you're doing. You're just hoping that people won't make fun of you. I had no idea how it would turn out.

Even an ice cream parlor - a definite advantage - does not alleviate the sorrow I feel for a town lacking a bookstore.

I am free to write the worst junk in the world.

If I didn't have that, fear and projections over what was coming next could have taken over. But it was tough. Don't think I was an angel. It was hell.

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.