Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.

Things happen they way they're meant to. There's a pattern and a shape to everything...Nothing happens without a reason...Nothing is impossible...(Page 180).

I'm getting too elderly to travel the length of the country for a free hangover.

I wasn't good enough. I had a little talent but not enough. There is nothing more discouraging than having just a little talent.

Writing is work, but it's also a compulsion, and once you get your characters on paper, you can't abandon them. You have to respond to them.

There's a war on. We don't know how anything's going to end. We just have to grasp each fleeting moment of joy as it whizzes by.

Life is so extraordinary. Wonderful surprises are just around the most unexpected corners.