It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

Now is History as fast as the mind remembers.

Love is a tough, ever hopeful thing, not easily destroyed.

It's no fun watching you disintegrate. Where is the old "I Love Myself" mantra? You need to feel you are indeed lovable and that your life matters. Listen. The birds are singing your name.

I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety wasn't impossible.

I'm fascinated how owning something, especially something as big as a home, can affect your political leanings. Home ownership spawns thoughts of equity and maintaining value.

My dark comic edge is the end result of trying to use humor to maintain my sanity growing up in a dysfunctional family in Honolulu.

Anyone who wants to be a writer should, if given the opportunity, hang out with "real writers," that is, poets or writers who are lions in literature, semi-lions, or published authors.

Writers should take advantage of their surroundings, if only to trigger memories that juice their writing.

For the first time I realized adults could back themselves into corners so remote that love, or its memory, could no longer reach them.

It's not enough to listen to their words. You have to mine their silences for buried ore. It's often only in the lies that we refuse to speak that truth can be heard at all.

War is the most profitable business on earth

Speak gently to young women as you would to your sisters

(M)uch as we might imagine we can leave the past behind, it has a nasty way of pressing its hoary old face against the window just as we were sitting down to the feast.

Love is a wishbone cracked in two.

Family: a foundation! Family: a ‘cloth’ that keeps the ‘body’!

The dreams weren’t as pleasing when they had no chance of coming true

We have enjoyed so much freedom for so long that we are perhaps in danger of forgetting how much blood it cost to establish the Bill of Rights.

For me, life has been interesting and entertaining, and I'm interested and curious about what's going to happen each day.

It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.