I'd pretty much given up hope of being published, so I just wrote the book I wanted to read.

You make a life out of what you have, not what you're missing.

A girl expecting rescue never learns to save herself. Even with the means, she will find her courage wanting.

Memory is a cruel mistress with whom we all must learn to dance.

It's a terrible thing, isn't it, the way we throw people away?

Reluctance to begin is quick to befriend procrastination. . . .

In each man's heart there lies a hole. A dark abyss of need, the filling of which takes precedence over all else.

His words had tossed the book that was her life into the air and the pages had been blown into disarray, could never be put back together to tell the same story.

It was such a pleasure to sink one's hands into the warm earth, to feel at one's fingertips the possibilities of the new season.

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book.

But history is a faithless teller whose cruel recourse to hindsight makes fools of its actors.

We are halves, but we make an infinite whole.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum.

Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am.

Many friends in generall, one in speciall.

In religion is much tiredness of people, a giving over of their doing to Someone Else.

You know, softball is the other sport I do besides basketball.

The literal meaning of the Chinese characters for revolution is elimination of life

A great brand is a story that's never completely told.

Honestly, the challenge about being a mom is when something goes wrong - someone's sick, getting someone to doctor's appointments.