Life is unfair. I got nothing but the best.

I think the most useful thing you can do as a writer is to reconstruct real life with all its color, hardship, joy, and intrigue. If you're interested in people, you honor them best, I think, by making the fullest possible picture of them. Your subjects may - and from my experience probably will - protest your portrait of them.

Taking responsibility and having faith in your own judgment will help you make good choices and decisions at the end of your pet's life.

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

It was a wonderful experience to live the life for a year; to spend all day doing Shakespeare and then do a play in the evening.