A literary achievement of the highest order.

There are things in this universe that we cannot control, and then there are the things we can. . . . Let fate, coincidence, and accident conspire; human beings must act on reason.

I think you have an obligation to share what you know as a writer.

Post-modernism is dead because it didn't address human needs.

I became paralyzed as an artist with writer's block.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I have relaxed into my persona as an author, although I used to fight that.