Sometimes you just need to give in to the yuckiness of the day, throw your psychic hands up in the air and trust that tomorrow will be an improvement.

You have to live your story before being able to write your story.

When you really consider the everyday things around you, they start to seem like tiny miracles.

Pink colors my world with love.

To be devoid of life is to lack spiritual dimension that brings heaven to earth

I played cello in my high school orchestra.

And all the while, I suppose," he thought, "real people were living somewhere, and real things happening to them.

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you will never, ever, be able to write women well.

It's easy to get married, but hard to stay that way.

How many thoughts float in and out of your head without your stopping to identify them? How many ideas and insights have escaped because you forgot to pay attention?

Our natural tendency is to project onto other people our own belief and value systems, in ways in which we are not even aware.

He who has learned to love an art or science has wisely laid up riches against the day of riches.

It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him.