“With 60 staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.”

“You're staring at me," Simon said. "Why are you staring at me? Have I got something on my face?”

“As a writer, even as a child, long before what I wrote began to be published, I developed a sense that meaning itself was resident in the rhythms of words and sentences and paragraphs… The way I write is who I am, or have become…”

“Through our sentences and paragraphs long-gone ghosts still have their say within the collective mind.”

“Books don’t change people; paragraphs do; sometimes even sentences.”

“An ending was an ending. No matter how many pages of sentences and paragraphs of great stories led up to it, it would always have the last word.”

“Deadlines just aren't real to me until I'm staring one in the face.”

“Documents are full of paragraphs. But the paragraphs don't have name. So, we can't talk about the paragraphs.”

“Looking in the mirror, staring back at me isn't so much a face as the expression of a predicament.”

“I'm sick of dour faces
Staring at me from the T. V.
Tower.
I want roses in
my garden bower; dig?”