What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

The day misspent, the love misplaced, has inside it the seed of redemption. Nothing is exempt from resurrection.

Small presses take chances. Chances are at the heart of all the literature we later know as great.

I have tried to live very quietly, so I could be happy.

As for reality, I don't even have any interest in that word.

Who would have guessed it possible that waiting is sustainable. A place with its own harvest.

Failure: the renewable resource.

A too closely watched flower/blossoms the wrong color./Excess attention to the jonquil/turns it gentian. Flowers/need it tranquil to get/their hues right. Some/only open at midnight.

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

It's important to have your private enjoyments because sometimes that's all we have.

It isn't ever delicate to live.

I would like to say that I’m sacrificial. But am I sacrificial enough to acknowledge the fact that I’m not?

I am not an accomplished lawyer.

It can't be 'true' love without the truth

The whole underlying theme for the new music... is to communicate honest, human values, and in doing that to try to improve the quality of life.

The worst situation you can have in a thriller is a lead who looks like he can handle himself.

Charles, mate, you fret too much. I'm a grown man, I am, and I can blood my handle." "Handle your blood?" Bones offered dryly. Ian grinned. "Exactly.

Persistence in a single view has never been regarded as a merit in political leaders.

Each of us was created to rule, govern, control, master, manage, and lead our environments. You are in essence a leader, no matter who you are.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.