I can never understand why people who have not seen me for a while ask if I am still writing. They might as well ask me if I am still breathing.

We all have our own battles to fight, and sometimes we have to go it alone. I'm stronger than you think, you'd be surprised.

I also know that you can lie not only by what you say but what you don't say.

It's all right to have secrets, ... as long as you don't have any secrets from yourself.

The first draft is just a skeleton-just bare bones. It's like the very first rehearsal of a play, where the director moves the actors around mechanically to get a feel of the action.

Writing, for me, is the best occupation I can think of, and there is nothing in the world I would rather do.

Happiness is wanting what you have.

An idea in the head is like a rock in the shoe; I just can't wait to get it out.

Since no one really knows what or who God is, or whether God is at all, why can't God be hope?

It's what they say to do when you're depressed, you know. Walk in someone else's shoes for a while, and your own won't feel so tight.

You don't have to be part of a couple to be happy, you know.

Create the best of yourself, become your best self.

I wish for sorrow to be a full stop and happiness to be a comma in my life.

I see you exhausted by poisonous flies

Once you sink that first stake they'll never make you pull it up.

How you start is important, but it is how you finish that counts. In the race for success, speed is less important than stamina. The sticker outlasts the sprinter.

Wonderful thing about novels is that sometimes we read a novel and we know the person in the novel more than we know people in our own lives.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.

Comedy has ceased to be a challenge to the mental processes. It has become a therapy of relaxation, a kind of tranquilizing drug.

Then he raised her enough to whisper in her ear, and while his voice was tender, his words were savage. "You're my woman, and no man or God or ghost will ever take you from me.

Avoid 'shoulding' on others and yourself!