You’ll find your one-in-a-million. But you’re sharp enough to know there’s no point in sludging through the first nine hundred, ninety-nine thousand, and ninety-nine to get to him.

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad, they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on.

I read about writers' lives with the fascination of one slowing down to get a good look at an automobile accident.

I am a great believer in variations on the routine.

Have you ever felt like you could cry because you know you just heard the most important thing anybody in the world could have spoke at that second?

Mothers smell blood before the wound is given. We see the rent place on the child's arm before the arrow strikes.

When I was little I would think of ways to kill my daddy.

But they get some comfort out of the made up stories. And if that helps them get along maybe I should not poke fun.

Folks do not want to see a body disappear before their very eyes. Not me at least.

Oh, it's no crime to want and need somebody to love and to be loved by and to go and do what you need to do to have that, but its certainly a pity when you want it so badly you'll let it be anybody.

Faith can never be lost.It can only be misplaced.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Evolving increases our value, and when we know our value, we navigate toward those with whom we share a genuine interest and appreciation. The rest, in my estimation, is bondage.

I listen to lots of music, especially Bach, opera (all periods), German lieder, chamber music, and rock, old and new. I can't listen to music while I write. It's too absorbing.

Anyone can take a false step And fall forever, Everyone is different. Where are they now, all those lost souls?

I think reading Shakespeare's plays when I was young was extremely important. He had the ability to make utter strangers come alive.

Jewelry takes people's minds off your wrinkles.

Nine lives added to my one life makes a perfect 10.

I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.