When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

I have not written a perfect sentence, in the literary sense. It's a lot easier to throw a perfect pass than to write a perfect sentence, if that sentence is meant to perform more than a mechanical function.

My father has always been the heart of my Penn Cage novels.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.