Facebook, from what I can tell, is the virtual equivalent of dropping into the homes of several million people, all of whom say at the same time: 'Hey! Let's set up the slide projector!

Some authors, when starting a novel, imagine a place first. Others, a character starts taking shape in their head. I start with a hook, a situation, a 'what if.

I was filling entire school notebooks with stories by Grade 3. Of course, they were double-spaced, and the handwriting was huge.

My life isn't much different than when I worked full time as a journalist.

Sometimes, it's easier to tell a stranger something very personal. It's like there's less risk, opening yourself up to someone who doesn't know you.

All the places my mind took me were places I did not want to go.

It's hard to make things right for everyone.""But if everybody helped just one person, lots of people would get helped.

But he knew she was a star, and he, only human. He was never meant to reach the stars - he could only admire them from afar.

Perhaps a book becomes a classic in proportion to how broadly its characters can be scavenged, how many readers find within it something they experience as desirable or even intimately necessary.

Purge everything that's holding you back. Whatever it is you feel you are being deprived of, trust the limitation serves to bring you more of what you want.

You pays your money and you takes your choice.

It always seemed to me that white people were judged as individuals. But if a Negro did something stupid or wrong, it was held against all of us.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

Apology sends the clearest signal that we have the strength of character to reconcile ourselves with the truth.

The world is like that -- incomprehensible and full of surprises .

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

I cant retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. Youd have to remove the music from me surgically—like you were taking out my appendix.