The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.

The color white is the absence of memory.

Never give a good politician time to pray.

Do you need someone to make you a paper badge with the word WRITER on it before you can believe you are one? God I hope not.

Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation. Affectation itself, beginning with the need to define some sorts of writing as 'good' and other sorts as 'bad' is fearful behavior.

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation.

They were close to the end of the beginning . . .