It isn't about knowing the most stories, child. It is about carrying the ones that are most important and passing them along.

I am always quiet so that I know what to say when I must speak.

Who can ever know what path to walk on when all of them are either crooked or broken? One just has to walk.

Don't make it worse by thinking it's more painful than it actually is.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for, go live with a car battery.

The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.

The frozen flowers never go away. They hang around somewhere all the time. I think we need to talk about vases.Did you hear the sound of the white flower?

I've just landed having returned from a very important and special meeting with the President of Mexico, a man I like and respect very much. And a man who truly loves his country, Mexico.

Reconciliation with our enemies is simply a desire to better our condition, a weariness of war, or the fear of some unlucky thing from occurring.

It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

When I'm really involved or getting towards the end of a novel, I can write for up to ten hours a day. At those times, it's as though I'm writing a letter to someone I'm desperately in love with.

I am learning. I'm a slow learner. I repeat myself three times, relationship wise.

There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.