we can forgive anything as long as it isn't done to us.

Don't just plan to write - write. It is only by writing, not dreaming about it, that we develop our own style.

Old age makes caricatures of us all.

If you are proposing to commit a sin it is as well to commit it with intelligence. Otherwise you are insulting God as well as defying Him, don't you think?

The great tragedy of Alzheimer's disease, and the reason why we dread it, is that it leaves us with no defence, not even against those who love us.

Publishers don't nurse you; they buy and sell you.

Can we ever break free of the devices and desires of our own hearts? Might not our conscience be telling us what we most want to hear?