Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

The essays are different because ultimately it's things I'm interested in, and I'm really just writing about myself and using those subjects as a prism.

Where there is creativity, there is hope.

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.

To have common glories in the past, a common will in the present; to have done great things together, to will to do the like again, — such are the essential conditions for the making of a people.

There are seasons when faith shows itself in taking; there are seasons when it is witnessed in refusing.

Whether a character in your novel is full of choler, bile, phlegm, blood or plain old buffalo chips, the fire of life is in there, too, as long as that character lives.

The image of the woman as we know it is an image created by men and fashioned to suit their needs.

GPS are everywhere. They are in cars. They were even in the half-tracks that, initially at least, were going to make the ground invasion in Kosovo possible.

I very rarely listen to the in-flight stuff.

After 'Raymond,' there was this big feeling of, 'What do I do next?'