You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...I retreat into my fictional world where everything makes sense - but even there I can't even control what people do...

...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

... here's what I believe - sometimes God has a Plan B...

TWO AND TWO MAKES FIVE

Grab a chance and you won't be sorry for a might-have-been.

The journey has to feel the way you want the destination to feel.

I usually tame my off-kilter sense of humor for novels.

One certainty when you travel is the moment you arrive in a foreign country, the American dollar will fall like a stone.

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.

It is well for a man when he has learned to endure what he cannot change, and to give up with dignity what he cannot retain.

it's a complete rush to get what you've been hoping for - to get it so full and complete that it fills your senses.

Unity has never meant uniformity.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.