I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I am not retiring. Writers don't retire. Writers never stop writing.

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you're climbing it.

Writers don't often say anything that readers don't already know, unless its a news story. A writer's greatest pleasure is revealing to people things they knew but did not know they knew. Or did not realize everyone else knew, too. This produces a warm sense of fellow feeling and is the best a writer can do.