How can you write if you can't cry?

He gave her a look that you could have poured on a waffle.

He looked at me as if I were a side dish he hadn't ordered.

They gave each other a smile with a future in it.

Shut up,' he explained.

How do you look when I'm sober?

Frenchmen drink wine just like we used to drink water before Prohibition.

The family you come from isn't as important as the family you're going to have

Try to make the time frame the minimum the story will permit.

A good many young writers make the mistake of enclosing a stamped, self-addressed envelope, big enough for the manuscript to come back in. This is too much of a temptation to the editor.

He looked at me as if I was a side dish he hadn't ordered.

Talk is free but the wise man chooses when to spend his words.

Recognition motivates.

Dine on little and sup on less.

I need to travel, of course, with my laptop, so I can do my business on the road.

Past, present and future are not amenities of language. Time unfolds into the seamsof being. It passes through you, making and shaping.

A spark in the sun, this tiny flower has roots deep in the cool earth.

I failed angst in high school. They let me graduate anyway.

Sometimes its necessary to embrace the magic, to find out what's real in life, and in one's own heart.

There's no doubt that the squad needs strengthening if we are to get back up among the top three because they are operating on another level to us at the moment.

I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.