Ive always got a novel under way, but if I try to work on it every day, exclusively, I falter. So I always keep more than one thing going.

Cell phones, alas, have pretty much ruined train travel, which I used to love. I could read or even sketch notes for what I was working on.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

The romantic appeal of solar sailing has ensured that its advocates consistently come from the worlds of both science fiction and science fact.

Letters had always defeated distance, but with the coming of e-mail, time seemed to be vanquished as well.

I actually think that Bandbox, by far the silliest of my books, is the best constructed of them.

To some extent the history of plagiarism is a history of notebooks.

The late Tom Wicker's biography of Nixon, called 'One of Us, ' is really quite good: you see the biographer discovering dimensions of sympathy for his subject that he hadn't expected to feel.

Loving each other began with longing, weaving her loneliness into his.

There is a difference between giving-up and strategic disengagement. Know the difference.

In coming to Christ we don't bring our old life up to a higher plane; we leave it at the cross.

An ability to choose is a necessity for the artist.

I don't believe so much in the value of a single picture anymore. I don't really photograph for the wall.

I actually build my dreams around the dancers I've got in my company.

It's not wether you were right or wrong, but how much faith you were willing to have - that decides the future.

As women, we must stand up for ourselves. We must stand up for each other. We must stand up for justice for all.

I'm the definition of half man, half drugs.

Honesty is the greatest aphrodisiac.