I'm the only one who can stop me.. I'm the one who's been sitting at the stoplight all these years, waiting for the light to turn green.

Writing is my shelter. I don't hide behind the words; I use them to dig inside my heart to find the truth.

If you jump to conclusions, you make terrible landings.

Pay attention to the things that agitate you. It will tell you a lot about yourself.

It's amazing how we can make ourselves believe what we want to.

People like to run their mouths.

Writing is the only place I can be myself and not feel judged.

Few writers are willing to admit writing is autobiographical.

As a writer, you get to bring attention to something without preaching. I don't believe in being didactic. So if you dramatize something, you automatically bring attention to it if people read it.

I'm more interested in interpersonal relationships - between lovers families, siblings. That's why I write about how we treat each other.

Folks want to glow, to leave their worries and dead skin behind.

I don't know whether you have any rights before you're born. All I know is that being born again doesn't entitle you to twice as many.

I'm a big believer in, no matter what you go through in life, as long as you can laugh your way through it, you're going to be okay.

I'm lucky. I think it's good that I have a body of work that addresses different things in different ways.

The world of derivatives is full of holes that very few people are really aware of. It's like hydrogen and oxygen sitting on the corner waiting for a little flame.

Meaningful work is within your grasp.

Once you see what you are doing or have been doing, you also see its futility, and that unconscious pattern then comes to an end by itself. Awareness is the greatest agent for change.

And we who delve in beauty's lore Know all that we have known before Of what inexorable cause Makes Time so vicious in his reaping.

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

Like drinking a cup of tea, all the simple things in life are the real things that make us happy!

I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old Your days are gone; it is part of life.