A man had to learn, it was his nature.

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.

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

If your train's on the wrong track every station you come to is the wrong station.

I fix what's broken - except in the heart.

The short story packs a self in a few pages predicating a lifetime

There is in the darkness a unity, if you will, that cannot be achieved in any other environment, a blending of self with what the self perceives, and exquisite mystical experience.