Trust, a sense of humor, and don't let the sun go down on an argument without trying to make it up. That's all I know about good marriage. I've been married a long time - it seems to be working.

Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.

Writing is magic, as much the water of life as any other creative art. The water is free. So drink. Drink and be filled up.

The wind makes you ache is some place that is deeper than your bones. It may be that it touches something old in the human soul, a chord of race memory that says Migrate or die - migrate or die.

...my basic belief about the making of stories is that they pretty much make themselves.

A lot of authority figures want to be good. I sense that, and yet at the same time I sense that authority, after a while, always leads to some kind of oppression. When the minority report comes in, what you do is run the minority out of town with a flaming cross. It's just the way things are.

I worry about you Bev. I worry a lot.