Often when I write I am trying to make words do the work of line and color. I have the painter's sensitivity to light. Much of my writing is verbal painting.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

All good dialogue perhaps deals with something unprecedented.

... any fictionis bound to be transposed autobiography.

For people who live on expectations, to face up to their realization is something of an ordeal.

Sacrificers are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those they sacrifice.

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.