Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.

My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.

People change and forget to tell each other.

As popular as Christmas is, it would be even bigger if it had vampires.

The characters in the four-lettered word FACT consist of seventy-five percent ACT, so it is always sensible to see the character of a person solely by his ACT or deeds than his words.

my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

The Cathedrals were built to the glory of God; New York was built to the glory of Mammon.

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

Kung fu and soccer are the two things that I was most interested in as a child.

I came from the outside, the rules of photography didn't interest me.

There is nothing we should be quite so grateful for as the last line of the poem that goes, 'When your own heart asks.