Her touch was as knowing and confident as her eyes, and as she focused all her attention upon me, I remembered that there is nothing so thrilling as a woman of words when she decides that the time for words is past.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

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

If a man lived long enough, his past would always overtake him, no matter how fast he ran or how morally he tried to live subsequently. And how men dealt with that law ultimately revealed their true natures.

See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.