For all my wanderings, I'm ordinary. I came to terms long ago with my littleness. A man is what he is--he can't rise so much as an inch above his shortcomings--Horatio Alger be damned!

It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven’t got a family of their own, they will invent one.

Of all the skills necessary for her work, what she was perhaps worst at was being polite to inanimate things.

People do not lack strength they lack will.

Sick people, particularly those with serious conditions, greatly prefer the company of their friends and family to residence in a hospital or nursing home.

Some men are so eager for success that they are even willing to work for it.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

All stories I write are compulsive. Anything I’ve ever written was because I don’t have a choice. I write stories because I can’t wait to tell it, I can’t wait to see how it ends.

Love with attachment consists of waves of emotion, usually creating invisible iron chains.

Most people don't read editorial pages. I think I must have been 40 before I even looked at an editorial page.