Cell phones are so convenient that they're an inconvenience.

I'm not so weird to me.

Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

In long-distance running the only opponent you have to beat is yourself, the way you used to be.

Every writer has his writing technique - what he can and can't do to describe something like war or history. I'm not good at writing about those things, but I try because I feel it is necessary to write that kind of thing.

Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation marks in a stream of consciousness without beginning or end.

You got to know your limits. Once is enough, but you got to learn. A little caution never hurt anyone. A good woodsman has only one scar on him. No more, no less.