Every day is a new day with me. All holds are off. All contracts are forgotten.

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

Good writing is rewriting.

Everybody has to feel superior to somebody," she said. "But it's customary to present a little proof before you take the privilege.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

The problem with living outside the law is that you no longer have its protection.

All human life has its seasons and cycles, and no one's personal chaos can be permanent. Winter, after all, gives way to spring and summer, though sometimes when branches stay dark and the earth cracks with ice, one thinks they will never come, that spring, and that summer, but they do, and always.