As my future crumbled before my eyes, I grasped for the rope. My entire life's struggle was ending here, in plain view of my enemies. How was it possible? Had had I let things come to this?

Rereading parts of your novel while writing is like doubling back at rerunning parts of a marathon midrace.

Don't cry for the dead, for the dead is deaf, dumb, blind, lame, unemotional and dead.

Noah drew me closer to him. "It's okay. I've got you.

Whatever disgrace we may have deserved it is almost always in our power to re-establish our character.

I voted for the Defense of Marriage Act but I do not believe we should institutionalize a form of discrimination against any minority by amending the Constitution.

We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us.

Don't leave home without your left hemisphere

I have one piece of advice for those of you who want to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award: Start early!

I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.

Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth.