The wild begins where you least expect it, one step off your normal course

... it's possible to let love fly by like a cloud in a windy sky if one is too timid, or perhaps unable to believe he is entitled to good fortune.

Of course it would cost something, but he was an expert in cutting corners; and when there were no more corners left he would make circles rounder.

Writing is a mode of being. If I write I live.

It was all those biographies in me yelling, 'We want out. We want to tell you what we've done to you.'

Some men are by nature explorers; my nature is to stay under the same moon and stars, and if the weather is wet, under the same roof. It's a strange world, why make it stranger?

A man has to construct, invent, his freedom.