“I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood?”
“I was entering moods I knew were bad for me. Poetical moods.”
“There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.”
“... the delicacy, the impermanence, the emptiness of mind states. Just like the weather, they blow in and out. Good mood. Bad mood. Tranquil mood. Frazzled mood [p. 105].”
“You can't just turn on creativity like a faucet. You have to be in the right mood. What mood is that? Last-minute panic.”
“Men have mood swings. Women have mood leaps, mood swirls, mood loop-de-loops.”