You Don't Have To Understand Why Anything

Most People Think That A Widow Is Inhabiting Some Elegiac World Of - It's Like Mozart's 'requiem Mass.' You Know, It's Very Beautiful And Elevated Thoughts And Some Measure Of Dignity. I Didn't Have That Experience At All. I Had One Pratfall After Another.

We Are All Regionalists In Our Origins, However 'universal' Our Themes And Characters, And Without Our Cherished Hometowns And Childhood Landscapes To Nourish Us, We Would Be Like Plants Set In Shallow Soil. Our Souls Must Take Root - Almost Literally.

To Be Knocked Out Doesn't Mean What It Seems. A Boxer Does Not Have To Get Up.

It's Not Hard To Write Poorly. But To Write Something Good, It Has To Be Revised.

The Mere Passage Of Time Makes Us All Exiles.