I grew up recognizing that there was nobody to give me any advice and that you do your best and if it's not good enough, someday you will come to terms with that.

Every generation must recognize and embrace the task it is peculiarly designed by history and by providence to perform.

It always surprised him when he thought of it later that he did not sink under the load of despair.

There must be areas in which a particular character does not represent you.

When brothers fight to death a stranger inherit their father’s estate

We live in a society that is in transition from oral to written. There are oral stories that are still there, not exactly in their full magnificence, but still strong in their differentness from written stories. Each mode has its ways and methods and rules. They can reinforce each other; this is the advantage my generation has - we can bring to the written story something of that energy of the story told by word of mouth.

He is a fool who treats his brother worse than a stranger.