Love can really screw you up before you learn to live with it.

Every writer has to figure out what works best - and often has to select and discard different tools before they find the one that fits.

Potholes and bumps? Welcome to the world. Every road gas them. They're there to be navigated, avoided, driven over, or through to the other side. Don't keep driving into the pothole.

Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

That's possible to likely. We're involved, you and me. I'm telling you what I'm going to do because I figure when people are involved, when they matter, they tell each other.

A woman who can threaten your life before breakfast is the only sort of woman worth having.

I find I use the Internet more and more. It's just an invaluable tool. I do most of my research on the Net now - and certainly do the bulk of my communicating through email.