I am a marginally employed person who can escape with my school teacher wife to the waters of Maine for much of the summer.

Generally speaking, I think it is fair to say that I am a friend to the creatures of the Earth when I am not busy eating them or wearing them.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day, but a sundial can be used to stab someone, even at nighttime.

Specificity is the soul of narrative.

I am not beautiful, so I don't know why I'm making myself ugly. But the mustache stays.

All I can ask from society is that it please stop telling me why I should like sports.

I actually own a copy of my own book; that's how dedicated I am as an author.

There is no ritual that enhances creativity other than just starting.

My career as a magazine writer was largely prefaced on the idea of curiosity, to go on adventures and weasel my way into the lives of people that I admire.

A literary agent is nothing but a cheap salesman (or woman); while a writer is a cheap salesman (or woman) who also has to actually write the books.

The villain of any story is often the most compelling character.

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experience.

You know the words from the Bible: 'Build not on sand, but on rock....' Tyrant leaders respect only firmness...and laugh at persons who give in to them.

Womanist is to feminist as purple is to lavender.

Mountains are not stadiums where I satisfy my ambition to achieve, they are the cathedrals where I practice my religion.

You don't spend your money while you're making it. You don't have time.

A writer's mind seems to be situated partly in the solar plexus and partly in the head.

I look at the universe and I know there's an architect.

I'm always ready for a change. I'm Irish. I'm a leprechaun.

If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, "I am, I am", so shall you be.

I always dreamed of being Maria in The Sound of Music.