We are not born to wait. We are born to do.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Although she had resisted this knowledge all her life, had lived determinedly in the future focused there by ambition, she understood at last that this was the real condition of humanity: The dance of life occurred not yesterday or tomorrow, but only here at the still point that was the present. This truth is simmple, sel-evident, but difficult to accept, for we sentimentalize the past and wallow in it, while we endure the moment and in every waking hour dream of the future.

Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day; the average is probably three pages.

A short-order cook, just off work, makes easy tracking for lions and worse

Every writer has his own voice. Other than that I'm always trying to do change-ups and publishers haven't always been happy about that.

Best thing that can happen to a man is a good woman.