Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

Ever since I was a child, folks have thought they had me pegged, because of the way I am, the way I talk. And they're always wrong.

She had only one flaw. She was perfect, otherwise whe was perfect.

Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

...of all things this was the saddest, that life goes on: if one leaves one's lover, life should stop for him, and if one disappears from the world, then the world should stop, too: and it never did. And that was the real reason for most people getting up in the morning: not because it would matter but because it wouldn't.

Never love a wild thing...If you let yourself love a wild thing. You'll end up looking at the sky.

I also write the last paragraph or page of a story first. That way I always know what I'm working towards.