dealing with a counter clerk at the phone company who had all the customer service skills of a homicidal sociopath on work release.

Of course I planned to write the Great American Novel; that lasted about a week, at which point I decided I had nothing to say that could possibly qualify. So I wrote a romance instead.

I think you have to have a publishing house that offers you some support.

Because who hasn't tried to pull their arms from the sleeves of gravity's lead coat?Who doesn't have at least one pair of wax wings out in the garage?

A theory that denies that thoughts can regulate actions does not lend itself readily to the explanation of complex human behavior.

Knowing when to leave may be the smartest thing anyone can learn.

In relativity, movement is continuous, causally determinate and well defined, while in quantum mechanics it is discontinuous, not causally determinate and not well defined.

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea.

Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being, each of us, the center of the universe; of our desires forever outnumbering our means of satisfying them.

Forever in debt to your priceless advice.

Each one of us has the power to be the change we want to see in the world, making the world a better place.

Each of us can do something to help someone.