Protecting yourself from failure is probably not a good way to live..

If you can't understand the blues, you don't know much.

We live in a very gynophobic society.

Not being happy really is my fear..

I fear for the democratic system. And I fear for our liberties. Only a small group of people fights for our liberties. Once we start on the slippery ….

I do not sing politics. I merely sing the truth..

The List is Life..

Life had sure been simpler when I hadn't dated..

I am not a Hemingway aficionado..

There must be nothing in my daily conduct that, copied by another, could lead that one into unholiness..

It’s not what you do some of the time that counts, it’s what you do all of the time that counts..

I'm far too middle-class to morally object to a paying job..

Nothing good comes out of depression..

A roll and butter and a small coffee seemed the only things on the list that hadn't been specially prepared by the nastier-minded members of the Borg….

Yes. I've been asked to pose nude, but I never have, and I probably never will..

So many see themselves as aggrieved; so few see themselves as aggrievers..

Jen, we did it. Everyone's free now..

Nothing good ever comes without a price..

When someone asks me to list the 10 best novels ever written, I always refuse to answer..

You can't get it right, until you make it wrong..

I am a writer, not a transcriber..