Every industry is going to be affected (by the aging population). This creates tremendous opportunities and tremendous challenges.

What's important is that a story changes every time you say it out loud. When you put it on paper, it can never change. But the more times you tell it, the more changes will occur. A story is a living thing; it moves and shifts

One of the greatest gifts you can get as a writer is to be born into an unhappy family.

Craziness attacks the softest eyes and hamstrings the gentlest flanks.

If not for sports, I do not think my father would have ever talked to me.

Some things don’t mix. Some things don’t mix at all, but sometimes in life you have to take the risk.

But even her demons she invested with inordinate beauty, consecrated them with the dignity of her attention.