“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laug...” — Percy Bysshe Shelley Quote

“We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.”

“The man of virtuous soul commands not, nor obeys.”

“No more let life divide what death can join together.”

“After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.”

“I started writing more like Bossa Nova style songs after moving to L.A.”

“The world is well supplied with spiders whose male ancestors died after mating. The world is bereft of spiders whose would-be ancestors never mated in the first place.”