All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

Dad said I would always be "high minded and low waged" from reading too much Ralph Waldo Emerson. Maybe he was right.

All artists as a type seem to suffer a great deal, but then so do miners.

I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.

Fate has never ladled out hardship very evenly, and this frequently trips our often infantile sense of justice.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Marriage is survived just on the basis of ordinary etiquette, day in and day out. Also cooking together helps a lot.