In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time.

As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent.

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.