Some People Are Like Blue

A Short Story Is A Sprint, A Novel Is A Marathon. Sprinters Have Seconds To Get From Here To There And Then They Are Finished. Marathoners Have To Carefully Pace Themselves So That They Don't Run Out Of Energy (or In The Case Of The Novelist-- Ideas) Because They Have So Far To Run. To Mix The Metaphor, Writing A Short Story Is Like Having A Short Intense Affair, Whereas Writing A Novel Is Like A Long Rich Marriage.

The Keys That Unlock The Heart Are Made Of Funny Materials: A Disarming Phrase That Comes Out Of The Blue, Nowhere, A Certain Sexy Walk That Sends You Reeling, The Way Someone Hums When She Is Alone. My Father Said It Was The Way My Mother Danced With Him.

Old People Are Often Impatient, But For What?

I Have Never Heard Anyone Say This Is It. I Know Right Now Is The High Point Of My Life. It Will Never Get Any Better. Only In Retrospect Do We Recognize The Best Times And Of Course Then It Is Too Late.

I Would Have Given Him Everything. I Would Have Pulled Down Planets To Make Our Life Work.