Much more than memoir; it's history.

A couple of years I taught in graduate programs at NYU and Columbia, in the early eighties.

If you dedicate your attention to discipline in your life you become smarter while you are writing than while you are hanging out with your pals or in any other line of work.

John Brown first swam into my vision in the 1960s when I was a political activist in the civil rights movement and the anti-war movement at Chapel Hill, where I went to university.

Like Neanderthals, men prefer to hunt alone or, if in a pack, at the head of it. Women, whether in the field or in a campfire, are collaborative, and when they hunt...they work together.

Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.

Loyalty is weird, it kicks in when you dont expect it and the people who deserve loyalty least seem to get it the most.

For almost anyone who chooses to be a writer, since so very few writers are able to learn a living from their work that is equivalent to the living earned by the average dentist or accountant.

Chimpanzees are endangered. Severely.

Let the truth take care of itself, I decided. It's done all right on its own so far.

The best thing about writing programs is that it rationalized the apprenticeship of a writer.

From time to time, we must seek a resting point from which we can again be aware of the beauty of the world.

You need to be focused on what the Lord has entrusted in you

Our ego occupies so much space, there is little room for anything else.

Deep down, it's all baseball, no matter what kind of geometrical shape you play it with.

Hell's Bells ringing, my secret music.

True prosperity isn't something you take from the world: it's something you share with the world.

I would be surprised if Donald Trump got elected.

People are worried where additional supply will come from.

The dark and the light are braided and bound.

My career has been over since 1990.