Then it is dark; it is a night where kings in golden suits ride elephants over the mountains.

That's the way I remember them, heading for an exit.

A page of good prose remains invincible.

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder.

Never eat a heavily sugared doughnut before you go on TV.

The need to write comes from the need to make sense of one's life and discover one's usefulness.