Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.

When I'm writing a novel, I'm dealing with a double life. I live in the present at the same time that I live in the past with my characters. It is this that makes a novelist so eccentric and unpleasant.

Traditionally, songwriters can't sing. And that holds true in my case, also.

There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.