I'll never retire. They'll have to take my computer out of my cold, dead hands. I'm addicted to writing. I feel physically unwell if I'm not doing it.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

Sometimes I think that the biggest difference between men and women is that more men need to seek out some terrible lurking thing in existence and hurl themselves upon it. Women know where it lives but they can let it alone.

More and more I'm aware that the permutations are not unlimited.

After all, when you come right down to it, how many people speak the same language even when they speak the same language?

I'd always assumed I was the central character in my own story, but now it occured to me I might in fact be only a minor character in someone else's.

A family is everybody all together.