I become a first-time novelist and a senior citizen on the same day.

You can't write anything you want. Once you write that first chapter, then everything else is determined. You can write anything you want, but only one thing works.

in spite of the presence of that senior citizen on board.

I want people to be ecstatic but to cry at the same time.

Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

I think of magazines as cultural entities rather than boxes of corn flakes that can be sold and shipped around.