When I don't feel hurt, I hope they bury me.

You could not pity anything if you weren't a man; pity was a surprise to God. It was not his invention.

We're persecuted in the most civilized languages.

One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride.

First drafts are for learning what your novel or story is about. Revision is working with that knowledge to enlarge and enhance an idea, to re-form it.... The first draft of a book is the most uncertain-where you need guts, the ability to accept the imperfect until it is better.

There comes a time in a man's life when to get where he has to go - if there are no doors or windows he walks through a wall.

Tomorrow the world is not the same as today, though God listens with the same ear.