All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones moving easily under the flesh.

You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else at all. But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

You remember with what you are at the time you are remembering.

Coincidences are God's way of remaining anonymous.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

Bad luck for both of us, we are both boulder-pushers.