Is anything accidental?

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.

One who knows the law of connectivity is a universal friend

The cure for anything is salt water. Sweat, tears, or the ocean.

There is always time, it is never too late....When you die and you haven't done it, then it's too late!

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

God is its author, and not man; he laid The key-note of all harmonies; he planned All perfect combinations, and he made Us so that we could hear and understand.

all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction

Being a good psychoanalyst has the same disadvantage as being a good parent: The children desert one as they grow up.

But if not Kelso, then something else, because a free people must own the nation they live in.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

I don’t like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I’m alone with a good book.