The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

It is comforting to think that we can love so powerfully that fate itself wheels and turns at the command of our souls.

By going to the movies, and because of other things, too, going to college, making a wide variety of friends, moving around traveling, I became a lot more open-minded than the heritage I was born into might have suggested.

Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly.

Sometimes two people will regard each other over a gulf too wide to ever be bridged, and know immediately what could have happened, and that it never will.

I think we have to get beyond the idea that we have to categorize people.

The idea that a book can advise a woman how to capture a man is touchingly naive. Books advising men how to capture a woman are far less common, perhaps because few men are willing to admit to such a difficulty. For both sexes, I recommend a good novel, offering scenarios you might learn from, if only because they reflect a lot of doubt.