“There was something new here, factors he hadn't counted on.”

“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.”

“Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before! What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas… perhaps… means a little bit more!”

“It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.”

“It would be of value here to remember that the condition of humanity at this time is not the result of simply one factor, but of several — all of them being active simultaneously, because this period marks the close of one age and the inauguration of the new.”

“We saw the Encantadas, but on the Encantadas we saw something Melville hadn't written about.”

“I was Cheryl Anway- that has to count for something.”

“I was surprised when shortly after New Year's Day of 1983, the Governor of Texas summoned me to his office, because I hadn't been aware that he knew I was in town.”

“Don’t let yourself be. Find something new to try, something to change. Count how often it succeeds and how often it doesn’t. Write about it. Ask a patient or a colleague what they think about it. See if you can keep the conversation going.”

“If you didn't remember something happening, was it because it never had happened? Or because you wished it hadn't?”