One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

We cannot get from anyone else the things we need to fill the endless terrible need, not to be dissolved, not to sink back into sand, heat, broom, air, thinnest air. And so we revolve around each other and our dreams collide. Look out the window in any weather. We are part of all that glamour, drama, change, and should not be ashamed.

Everything in the world had happened to them and kept on happening. They didn't care. They liked it that way.

A piece of writing is the product of a series of explosions in the mind.