God, why didn't you make us all dogs?

Pride is the parent of destruction; pride eats the mind and the heart and the soul alive.

Don't be a pawn in somebody's game. Find the attitude which gives you the maximum strength and the maximum dignity, no matter what else is going on

There may be writing groups where people meet but it's occasional. You really do it all at your own computer or your own typewriter by yourself.

You know nothing... And suppose the vampire who made you knew nothing, and the vampire who made that vampire knew nothing, and the vampire before him knew nothing, and so it goes back and back, nothing proceeding from nothing, until there is nothing! And we must live with the knowledge that there is no knowledge.

Re-telling the Christian story is the essence of my vocation. That has been going on since the Evangelists in one form or another.

But during all these years I had a vague but persistent desire to return to New Orleans. I never forgot New Orleans. And when we were in tropical places and places of those flowers and trees that grow in Louisiana, I would think of it acutely and I would feel for my home the only glimmer of desire I felt for anything outside my endless pursuit of art.