Lancaster, California ... that promised land sometimes called 'the west coast of Iowa.

The wind shows us how close to the edge we are.

The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self.

We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Memory fades, memory adjusts, memory conforms to what we think we remember.

We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

The fear is for what is still to be lost.

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

Short stories demand a certain awareness of one's own intentions, a certain narrowing of the focus.

May we never let the things we can't have or don't have spoil our enjoyment of the things we do have and can have.

Say what you have to say and the first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending - sit down.

There will always be someone else with a different view than you. I appreciate them and would never say that they are wrong. I hope that they would give me that courtesy also.

If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.

Every choice moves us closer to or farther away from something. Where are your choices taking your life? What do your behaviors demonstrate that you are saying yes or no to in life?

Journalists immediately think of me as a resource for a quote or comment because they know that I will be available to offer fresh insight and meet their deadlines.

Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science.

I have a problem with homosexual acts.

For all these new and evolutionary facts, meanings, purposes, new poetic messages, new forms and expressions, are inevitable.