"I don't mean to put down anybody's taste but they were all lovey-dovey, you know, and he got all sparkly. So that kind of spoiled that."

"When asked, 'How do you write?' I invariably answer, 'one word at a time.'"

"Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to a problem."

"The trust of the innocent is the liar's most useful tool."

"Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life."