The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.
The blizzard doesn't last forever; it just seems so.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
Why stay we on earth except to grow?
Shakespeare wrote Moby-Dick, using Melville as a Ouija board.
You only fail if you stop writing.
Usually my characters, though young, tend to be street-wise.
I'm a novelist, not a social scientist or a commentator.
The more you reason the less you create.
Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
I'm a biographer; I can live with a little hyperbole.
I am bigger than the box I'm in.
I started doing improv in college, and I really liked it.
I don't really consider myself an impressionist.
If the speaker won't boil it down, the audience must sweat it out.
Nothing is so easy to fake as the inner vision.
My parents were sixty years married.
Grown ups are complicated creatures, full of quirks and secrets.
One learns one’s mystery at the price of one’s innocence.
Suddenly I remembered that laugh, it told a different story, our story.
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
