So much of life is happenstance. It makes me laugh when I go to a bookstore and see all those titles about controlling your life. You're lucky if you can control your bladder.

Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Whoever heard of a neurotic frog? Where do humans get off thinking they're the pinnacle of evolution?

Writers will happen in the best of families.

Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

It's an act of faith to be a writer in a postliterate world.