'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

There can never be any substitute for your own palate nor any better education than tasting the wine yourself.

I was on the Oprah Winfrey Show once. It was a really slow news day for Oprah, and there were several of us on 'cause none of us was sufficiently interesting by his or herself.

The key to growing up well, is being tough enough.

'All Our Yesterdays' was unquestionably the best work I have ever done. And the reading public stayed away in droves.

Coincidence exists, but believing in it never did me any good.

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the amount of reading and learning that I acquired along the way