"When you get to be my age, you realize that people are not all that different."

"The beauty of the world is that it is always changing."

"Love is never any better than the lover."

"I can't say 'I'm writing a book' unless I have a topic, a subject, a theme, and characters who are struggling with that theme."

"If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it."