Concentrate on finding your goal then concentrate on reaching it.

Sooner or later every writer evolves his own definition of a story.Mine is: A reflection of life plus beginning and end (life seems not to have either) and a meaning.

Now, then, that is the tale. Some of it is true.

We tend to take summer's vitality for granted, when in actuality it is just one prolonged drought, or disease, away from decimation.

Only those who go where few have gone can see what few have seen.

But I was frightfully fond of the universe and wanted to address it by a diminutive. I often did so; and it never seemed to mind.

The search for causes must come after the collection of facts.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

Opening cans of chili in zero gravity to see how it looks, that's something that went wrong.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

I lived in Georgetown in the late 70s about four houses down from the steps.