I write in American slang.

If I had parallel lives to pursue, I would also want one as a painter.

As a child, I read science fiction, but from the very beginnings of my reading for pleasure, I read a lot of non-fictional history, particularly historical biography.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

Mexico was conquered more by manipulation of myth and archetype.

I'm not gifted, but I'm not hopeless.

I get work because I'm primarily a novelist but I've become script doctor. I can work back and forth between French and English.

In America, if you don't do a 100 million dollars, you've done nothing.

Chaos is the enemy of Order but the enemy of Chaos is also the enemy of Order

If it's not American, the French won't go see it.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

She abandoned the garden, and the mums and asters that had trusted her to see them through to the first frost hung their waterlogged heads.

You're very quiet, " she murmured. "That's because I'm the big bad wolf, " he growled playfully.

She ate--so, so good--cocooned in the harmonic dissonance of a large family, where every sound was distinct yet blended.

Conscience is but a word that cowards use Devised at first to keep the strong in awe.

For to me every sort of peace with the citizens seemed to be of more service than civil war.

Those waters which leave the main stream either cannot reach the sea and disappear in inland or find a better place, a beautiful lake.

A kiss can be a comma, a question mark, or an exclamation point. Thats basic spelling that every woman ought to know.

You can never have enough garlic. With enough garlic, you can eat The New York Times.

The liberty of speaking and writing guards our other liberties.

In years that bring the philosophic mind.