24January2007

Just a comment about why the boaters were smiling: They were smiling because we must smile. Living in a world where catastrophe and misfortune are rampant means that we must take every moment of life as a blessing, for it truly is. My philosophy is better a flat tire than death. Do not worry over what you cannot control. This lesson was a hard one to learn, but with motherhood it became necessary.

• http://www.mississippireview.com/1996/msexson.html

“I just wanted to write books I wanted to write, ... There's no writer who has not had enough ego to hope something he or she wrote would be seized on by the public -- that something they write will last beyond them. But hoping and expecting are two different things. Expecting would be beyond ego.”

~Robert Jordan