Clever how the cosmos can, in a single portent, be ingratiating yet sadistic.

When it comes to life, we spin our own yarn, and where we end up is really, in fact, where we always intended to be.

Fate could be viewed as sadistic at times.

I see life as increasingly complex, vivid, colorful, crazy, chaotic. That's the world I write about... the world I live in.

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

In my fairly disorganized life, yellow stickies are too easily lost, and as for software, I try to avoid using my computer as much more than a typewriter and a post office. I rely on my lifelong habit of daydreaming to spin my stories.