When I was a kid... I needed to belong.

I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.

I walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.

Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.

I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.

Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.