I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable.

The sky broke like an egg into full sunset and the water caught fire.

I have always wanted to write in such a way that will make people think, Why, I've always thought that but never found the words for it.

Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.

Sainthood is acceptable only in saints.

Ahesta boro, Mah-e-man, ahesta boro.

I spend time with people who are movers and shakers, and others who are just friends I really care for. Some of them are rich, some of them are poor. I couldn't care less. I'm not a snob.

Either I act or I die.

I'm much more capable of cutting back than of expanding. I've gotten very surgical about poems.

I'm 100% proud of the TV work I achieved. The work I did on shows on insects and Great White sharks... stuff that's in school curriculums in England. Now they are showing up on Discovery Channel.

You insisted on thinking of them as angels, even if they were fallen angels.

Novels must have verisimilitude, and truth has little enough of that.

By mid-morning a rain as fine as silk spills was weaving over the lake.

That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

The meaning of a communication is the result you get.