If you've ever been homesick, or felt exiled from all the things and people that once defined you, you'll know how important welcoming words and friendly smiles can be.

You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair ... Come to it any way but lightly.

In these silences something may rise

You could not turn off love- even the rather absent, sometimes taken for granted love- the way you'd turn off a faucet. Love ran from the heart and the heart had it's own imperatives

What really scares me is Alzheimer's or premature senility, losing that ability to read and enjoy and to write. And you do it, and some days maybe aren't so good, and then some days, you really catch a wave, and it's as good as it ever was.

The world was the Overlook Hotel, where the party never ended. Where the dead were alive forever.

Hearts are tough, Most times they don't break. Most times they are only bend