"The rain came down, sluicing the blood from the cobblestones, and the day was clean and washed."

"Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you were no exception."

"I learned a long time ago that you can't be friends with people who don't want to be friends with you."

"All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."

"To be a writer, you must be a voracious reader."