It's what you do that makes your soul.

We came from Bethlehem, Georgia bearing Betty Crocker cake mixes into the jungle.

It takes some courage to write fiction about politically controversial topics. The dread is you'll be labeled a political writer.

Parenting is something that happens mostly while you're thinking of something else.

In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life.

He had senile dementia and liked to go outside naked, but he could still do two things perfectly: win at checkers and write out prescriptions.