A lawsuit is to ordinary life what war is to peacetime. In a lawsuit, everybody on the other side is bad. A trial transcript is a discourse in malevolence.

Writing cannot be done in a state of desirelessness.

This is what it is the business of the artist to do. Art is theft, art is armed robbery, art is not pleasing your mother.

I was always trying to take art photographs, but the most interesting pictures were the snapshots. The artsy pictures were boring, always.

The writer, like the murderer, needs a motive.

Poets and novelists and playwrights make themselves, against terrible resistances, give over what the rest of us keep safely locked within our hearts.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

If you scratch a great photograph, you find two things; a painting and a photograph.

The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is.

There are good photographers who might elevate themselves to the ranks of the great simply by burning most of their work.

Malice remains its animating impulse.

True education comes from a passion for learning.

Enlightenment was not just Gautama Buddha's, but you too, individually, must find this new perspective of life, this new point of view in your life and in all things." -

The media cause more problems than they do good.

It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.

You can't do any better than your best.

The art of writing fiction is to sail as dangerously close to the truth as possible without sinking the ship

Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.

Marriage doesn't just happen! It takes a solid set of decisions, a huge amount of skill and enormous willpower.

Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.