Buying flowers is not just a way to bring home beauty. It's an expression of confidence that better days are coming. It's a defiant finger in the face of those naysayers who would have you believe your fortunes will never improve.

the problem with knowing is that it takes away the possibility of pretending!

When I got to the end of this play, I realized I was trying to make Angel do something that had not been justified by the characters and by their story . . .. I kept trying to force it, but that doesn't work. So I had to come to terms with what it meant for me to create a character who doesn't triumph.

Putting words on paper regularly is part of the necessary discipline of writing. A journal is a great way to do that.

What looks like crazy on an ordinary day looks looks a lot like love if you catch it in the moonlight.

Discomfort is always a necessary part of enlightenment.

But it is the fear, not the writing that defeats me. Everything is not a masterpiece.