Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body.

How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

We cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we have entrusted to enforce those laws.

There is something fresh and crisp about the first hours of a Caribbean day, a happy anticipation that something is about to happen, maybe just up the street or around the next corner.

The reason most people play golf is to wear clothes they would not be caught dead in otherwise.

You can't miss what you never had.

Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairy-tale artist, you have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.