Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.
Without peanut butter, I might starve.
A good writer is always a people watcher.
I wasn't interested in the kinds of books that I thought I should be reading.
I'm a rewriter. That's the part I like best. . . once I have a pile of paper to work with, it's like having the pieces of a puzzle. I just have to put the pieces together to make a picture.
I thought ["Summer Sisters" ] would be a children's book - two girls who summer together from very different backgrounds. And then when it just kept going and going and going. They kept getting older.
A person without curiosity may as well be dead.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.
Not even a collapsing world looks dark to a man who is about to make his fortune.
Food is better medicine than drugs
I am at the stage of my life everyone dreads - that of filling my days with the past, because there is little future left.