The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

Being paid well for something you love to do - it's a grace.

less real than such threats as a man with a gun, a woman with a knife, or a U.S. Senator with an idea.

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.

You can't always win arguments as a writer, but you have to just go ahead and say, well, I'm doing it that way anyway.

My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.