Art is whether or not there is a scream in him wanting to get out in a special way.

It's always easier to learn something than to use what you've learned. . . . You're alone when you're learning. But you always use it on other people. It's different when there are other people involved.

It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.

A life is measured by how it is lived for the sake of heaven.

A non-fiction writer pretty much has the shape of the figure in front of him or her and goes about refining it. A work of non-fiction is not as difficult to write as a work of fiction, but it's not as satisfying in the end.

I'm constantly revising. Once the book is written and typed, I go through the entire draft again.

But today we become aware of other readings of the human experience very quickly because of the media and the speed with which people travel the planet.