It's just a deep pleasure to read something you've written yourself - if and when you like it.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

Do you think I lie to you?No.But you think I might lie to you about dying.Yes.Okay. I might. But we're not dying.Okay.

Always games, baby. But the rules are ours to break.' Julian Harte

As a writer, you can’t get to where you want to be, coming from the place you started, unless you have something extremely important you want to say to someone who really doesn’t want to know.

All this and Heaven too!

You look disappointed to see me, Zach," Macey teased. "Don't you like my jacket?

Be kind to everyone - you don't know what cross they're bearing and how sweet that kind word might ring.

Extra interest signifies extra risk.

All the conscious decisions that I have taken in my life have never borne fruit. Not even come close! So, I am just very happy not planning.

My mother had a radio show - a Barbara Walters type of gal and was very successful for about 20-some years on a radio station.

A song should have all the color and beauty of every rose.