My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business, and we aren't told that difficult or painful things won't happen, just t….

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daug….

Be aware that rigidity imprisons..

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed..

That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe..

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving..

We turn to stories and pictures and music because they show us who and what and why we are..

To refuse to respond is in itself a response..

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!".

I looked at this tiny, perfect creature and it was as though a light switch had been turned on. A great rush of love flooded out of me..

Inspiration more often comes during the work than before it, because the largest part of the job of an artist is to listen to the work..

Now I am setting out into the unknown. It will take me a long while to work through the grief. There are no shortcuts; it has to be gone through..

Yes! I dare disturb the universe..

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are..

In the final exam in the Chaucer course we were asked why he used certain verbal devices, certain adjectives, why he had certain characters behave in….

Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived..

It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have..

A book comes and says, 'Write me..

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things..

Wild nights are my glory!.

You learn to write by doing it..