"I write not only what I want to read...I write all the things I should have been able to read."

"No song or poem will bear my mother's name. Yet so many of the stories that I write, that we all write, are my mother's stories."

"Sometimes, reading a blog, which I do infrequently, I see that generations of Americans have been wilfully crippled, and can no longer spell or write a sentence."

"Writing about people helps us to understand them, and understanding them helps us to accept them as part of ourselves."