Literature, whether handed down by word or mouth or in print, gives us a second handle on reality.

There's no lack of writers writing novels in America, about America. Therefore, it seems to me it would be wasteful for me to add to that huge number of people writing here when there are so few people writing about somewhere else.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

A boy sent by his father to steal does not go stealthily but breaks the door with his feet.

Only the story can continue beyond the war and the warrior. The story outlives the sound of the war drum... The story is our escort. Without it we are blind... It is the thing that sets us apart from cattle.

I do not actually see how art, literature can be anything other that being in that domain of trying to tell us, trying to get us to see what is important in our lives.

A goat does not eat into a hen's stomach no matter how friendly the two may be.