How little we know of what there is to know.

You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple.

Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

Retirement is the ugliest word in the language.

All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.