And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out.

Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day.

You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

I decided that was the greatest idea I had ever heard. I started writing every day. I never stopped.