I want story, wit, music, wryness, color, and a sense of reality in what I read, and I try to get it in what I write.

When you see the ugliness behind the tears of another person, it makes you take a closer look at your own.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.

This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.