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My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

The pen is the tongue of the mind.

It's called a pen. It's like a printer, hooked straight to my brain.

Something different happens to my brain when I put pen to paper: the pace of writing or drawing slows you down and gives you more time for thoughts to come in.

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've never been able to think clearly with my fingers in that position. A pen is a much more primitive instrument. You feel that the words are coming out of your body and then you dig the words into the page.

Life is too sweet and too short to express our affection with just our thumbs. Touch is meant for more than a keyboard.

Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.

I discovered it was easier to carry around a pen than a piano.

I remind myself that I'm always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

I'm not happy unless I have a pen in my hand, it's really that simple.