Fool me once

Even having to water flowers is too much constraint.

Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.

We've all got darkness inside us. And I've got quite a lot of darkness.

I feel at times that I'm making up these little people and I've lost my mind.

We are like roses that have never bothered to bloom when we should have bloomed and it is as if the sun has become disgusted with waiting

Short stories and some short novels are close to poetry--with the fewest words they capture the essence of a situation, of a human being. It's like trying to pin down the eternal moment.

Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

It isn't true that convicts live like animals: animals have more room to move around.

I didn't jump onto anyone else's coattail and ride their wave.