For a man to know what he has when he had it, that is what makes him a fortunate man.

I always feel it is a shortcoming of mine as a reader and as a writer that I frankly need to like somebody.

I'm very sentimental about lobsters. The last lobster I ate was the only lobster I cooked.

He used to say we all had a compass inside of us and what we needed to do was to find it and to follow it.

Learn to write by writing

My writing process has changed because it's harder to find uninterrupted time.

The light was cut to lace by the trees that had grown so thick with leaves in the last few months.