A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and silence go together.

A ratio of failures is built into the process of writing. The wastebasket has evolved for a reason.

A word after a word after a word is power (from 'Spelling').

A divorce is like an amputation; you survive, but there's less of you.

Long experience had taught me that absolute silence is the best way. Say something, and it can be misheard. Misunderstood. Misinterpreted. It can get you convi…

Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead: therefore we must learn both arts.

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually d…