Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

Life is a teacher. We are the student.

Design is nothing if not decision making.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

I definitely spend the most money on shoes, partly because vintage footwear can be a little funky - in a bad way. I like to keep things pretty simple up top and then go weird with the shoes.

Everyone understands cards and relates to it. They have them in their homes and in their hands, so it makes them very accessible.

My RV is the only place where I can find some peace and quiet.

Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production.

In matters editorial, I am a believer in totalitarian despotism. Most writers are lazy, difficult, selfish, thoughtless, and unreliable.

American power in the world relies on these ideals of openness and critical debate.

That is the biggest form of bullying ever, the paparazzi. Printing lies, making accusations, it's just bullying.