Writing books is a nice retreat. There's nothing quite like diving into a book for a few hours. That is a big time vacation.

Even if you're the worst writer in the world, at least you'll have the evidence.

There's a lot of phones; but I'm out of that field. They make me feel like a prisoner of war; there's not going to be any texting for me. The pre-paid phone is the frontier of my technological advance.

Is a gesture of charity genuine or is it a kind of deep moral tax write-off?

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

I've had an addiction for a long time to the whole business of maximizing one's potential, what I call human activation. The vehicle for actualizing oneself is choice, options, seeking out the proper choices.

Life is a sandwich of activity between two periods of bed-wetting.