Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

His sadness was of the kind that is patient and without hope.

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Your reader is at least as bright as you are

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

In talking about the past, we lie with every breath we draw.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

Copy nature and you infringe on the work of our Lord. Interpret nature and you are an artist.

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.

You cannot get an influence from the cuisine of a country if you don't understand it. You've got to study it.

The temple of the sylvan goddess, indeed, has vanished, and the King of the Wood no longer stands sentinel over the Golden Bough.

That's what I think I am: a lot of fun - a lot of fun to be with.

You are able to monitor and police your standards of quality once you have defined them.

Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way.

I continued with whatever 'qualified climbers' I could con into this rather unpromising venture.