The redness was going out of the light now, the remains of the day were a fading pink, the color of wild roses.

I’m not particularly keen on writing which exhaustively describes the physical characteristics of the people in the story and what they’re wearing… I can always get a J. Crew catalogue… …So spare me, if you please, the hero’s ‘sharply intelligent blue eyes’ and ‘outthrust determined chin’.

We never know which lives we influence, or when, or why.

Love, the simplest, strongest, and most unforgiving of all emotions.

I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness.

It's time for the wealthy to pay their fair share before the middle class becomes the forgotten class.- And it's time for the banks to give back what they were given. There are those in politics, particularly those on the conservative side, who can't get enough of telling people that the wealthy one per cent must not be taxed because doing so kills jobs. The real job-killers are corporate greed and political expediency. It's time for working people in Maine and all across the country to take back the American dream.

The muses are ghosts, and sometimes they come uninvited.