We live out our lives as we are meant to live them-with some choice, with some chance, but mostly as a result of the persons we are.

We must nurture and love, if life is to have any real meaning. But First we must find a way to survive against the things that prevent us from doing so.

If you are ever completely satisfied with something you have written, you are setting your sights too low. But if you can't let go of your material even after you have done the best that you can with it, you are setting your sights too high.

I might add that you change as a person as you grow older, so you change as a writer, too.

I want you, as a reader, to experience what I experience, to let that other world, that imaginary world that I have created, tell you things about the real world.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

You shouldn't believe everything you hear you're young, not stupid.