Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure.

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.

I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa.

I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it.

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.