I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carole.

I still write in long hand. I type like a chimpanzee.

She had so mastered the strategies of camouflage that her own history had seemed a series of well-placed mirrors that kept her hidden from herself.

Isn't it a shame military doctors couldn't be as good as military sunglasses?

There is no teacher more discriminating or transforming than loss.

Writing has never been that simple for me.

A recipe is a story that ends with a good meal.