The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.

A desert is a place without expectation.

The truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

A truly living human being cannot remain neutral.

The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.

Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.

Writing is making sense of life.

Perhaps the best definition of progress would be the continuing efforts of men and women to narrow the gap between the convenience of the powers that be and the unwritten charter.

I have failed at many things, but I have never been afraid.

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

Time is change; we measure its passage by how much things alter.

Health so far outweighs all external goods that a healthy beggars is truly more fortunate than a king in poor health.

it (love) must be a conscious choice and not an emotional response (Matthew 5:46).

It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.

I have a necklace around my neck that my lady gave me, so I try never to leave home without that.

The best proof of the specificity of the book is that it is at once a reality of the virtual and a virtuality of the real.

I am wont to think that men are not so much the keepers of herds as herds are the keepers of men. The former are so much the freer.

I'm not for or against video - or any medium or style, for that matter.

As an actor, when you walk into a room to audition, you get five minutes with a casting director, who doesn't even look at you, most of the time.

If the guidebook used to be critical, today it seems largely a celebratory adjunct to the publicity operations of hotels, resorts, and even countries.