What a richly colored strong warm coat is woven when love is the warp and work is the woof.

The real writer is one who really writes. Talent is an invention like phlogiston after the fact of fire. Work is its own cure. You have to like it better than being loved.

thinking about tracking. . . . Sometime in grade school, already your fate was settled, your socialclass was established for the rest of your life.

I want to do something very important. Like fly into the past and make it come out right.

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Drifting with things is a habit it takes almost dying to break.

they were in love with apocalypse, like all men, more in love with myths than with any woman.

When will women not be compelledto view their bodies as science projects, gardens to be weeded, dogs to be trained?When will a woman ceaseto be made of pain?

A strong woman is a woman determined to do something others are determined not be done

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

People were not getting back what they wanted for their sold labor. Taxes grew and services shrank. Prices rose and quality decayed. Everywhere people felt used and betrayed and coerced and cheated.

When a show ends, for a few days, my body sizzles with leftover energy, like a tree in the wake of a lightning strike.

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough

Each of us has a day ... when he has to accept finally the fact that he is a man.

Crabgrass is aptly descriptive of this hated weed, for it does scuttle quickly through a lawn.

Most of all, God has blessed us by giving us the privilege of knowing Him and walking with Him every day. He did this by sending His Son into the world to die for our sins.

Campbell" Julia says "Don't do this to me" "Do what?" "Push me off the same cliff twice

Mankind does not drink alcohol because there are breweries, distilleries, and vineyards; men brew beer, distill spirits, and grow grapes because of the demand for alcoholic drinks.

Every wrong seems possible today, and is accepted. I don't accept it.

I would prefer chess to become part of the Olympic Games. This would also lead to chess become more accepted as a sport in general.

If you were a fully realized person-whatever the hell that would be-you wouldn't fool around writing books.