I felt very lonely when they were all there.

The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.

The first and most important thing of all, at least for writers today, is to strip language clean, to lay it bare down to the bone.

it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short.

Wars are caused by undefended wealth.