The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

The struggle is what teaches you.

It is a truth of human nature that we can ponder life's mysteries for only so long before we lose interest and move on to something else.

All of us are subjected to somebody else's power at some point. So once in a while you kiss ass. So what? Either you make your peace with that early, or you end up living your life as a crank and a misfit.

Writing isn't about the destination-writing is the journey that transforms the soul and gives meaning to all else.

Ghosts don't haunt us. That's not how it works. They're present among us because we won't let go of them.

The beauty of word processing, God bless my word processor, is that it keeps the plotting very fluid. The prose becomes like a liquid that you can manipulate at will. In the old days, when I typed, every piece of typing paper was like cast in concrete.