Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.

Reduce intellectual and emotional noise until you arrive at the silence of yourself and listen to it.

There are not too many fables about man's misuse of sunflower seeds.

I have always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

The time is right to mix sentences with dirt and the sun with punctuation and rain with verbs.

Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this

I had a good-talking candle last night in my bedroom. I was very tired but I wanted somebody to be with me, so I lit a candle and listened to its comfortable voice of light until I was asleep.

I drank coffee and read old books and waited for the year to end.

Excuse me, I said. I thought you were a trout stream. I'm not, she said.

Like old times... wanna arm wrestle for her?

I go to bed with a clear conscience. I sleep great. I know I did my best.

I grew up in Detroit. So my mother always loved big band music.

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

I love performing and pretending - it's very easy for me.

If you phone a psychic and she doesn't answer the phone before it rings, hang up.

Poverty is no vice, but an inconvenience.

A heart's a hard thing to live without. I should know. I've tried it," he said.

Transformations require that we let go of familiar ways of doing things, without yet knowing what we will do next.

I wanted to help women and their families.