If the stories come, you get them written, you're on the right track. Eventually everyone learns his or her own best way. The real mystery to crack is you.

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.

The great thing about writing: Stay with it ... ultimately you teach yourself something very important about yourself.

We can't all be friends and relatives as the world is; most of us have to be strangers.

I sometimes confuse myself with the little I know.

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.'