“To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants!”

“The heart breaks open,...'I know now that we never get over great losses: we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. Sometimes I think that the pain is what yields the solution. Grief and memory creative their own narrative:...”

“If I had to give young writers advice, I would say don't listen to writers talking about writing or themselves.”

“A happy life is one spent in learning, earning, and yearning.”

“I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.”

“Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.”

“I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions.”